Amusing portrait of a Swallow!

[Brian Ellis]

Took this photo yesterday evening on our patio!

[Fat Tone]

I can just imagine the wagging finger out of frame: "N ah, sister"

[TransformX]

We have a wild life shelter not too far from home, used to be a hospital for them as well but it was closed because of lack of budget. They keep wounded wild animals that can't be returned to nature there.

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[Brian Ellis]

My best raptor photo was a Buteo buteo, taken in Switzerland, which I posted at http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php...318#post582318

Another Swallow from last night..

[lowlifecat]

Took this photo yesterday evening on our patio!

where's the coconut?

[WxDude]

Is it an African or a European Swallow.

[Brian Ellis]

where's the coconut?

Comprends pas???

[Brian Ellis]

Is it an African or a European Swallow.

Yes

[Fat Tone]

Brian, is that your belly under the swallow?

[cjolley]

For some reason this reminded me of global warming discussions here.

Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzcLQRXW6B0

Then this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2R3FvS4xr4

[lowlifecat]

Took this photo yesterday evening on our patio!

where's the coconut?

Comprends pas???

Monty Python and The Holy Grail:

Scene 1


[wind]
[clop clop]
ARTHUR: Whoa there!
[clop clop]

GUARD #1: Halt! Who goes there?
ARTHUR: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle
of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeator of the Saxons, sovereign
of all England!
GUARD #1: Pull the other one!
ARTHUR: I am. And this my trusty servant Patsy.
We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights
who will join me in my court of Camelot. I must speak with your lord
and master.
GUARD #1: What, ridden on a horse?
ARTHUR: Yes!
GUARD #1: You're using coconuts!
ARTHUR: What?
GUARD #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin'
'em together.
ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this
land, through the kingdom of Mercea, through--
GUARD #1: Where'd you get the coconut?
ARTHUR: We found them.
GUARD #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical!
ARTHUR: What do you mean?
GUARD #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin
or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not
strangers to our land.
GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried.
GUARD #1: What -- a swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!
GUARD #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple
question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound
coconut.
ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master
that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.
GUARD #1: Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow
needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
ARTHUR: Please!
GUARD #1: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I'm not interested!
GUARD #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!
GUARD #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European
swallow, that's my point.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that...
ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court
at Camelot?!
GUARD #1: But then of course African swallows are not migratory.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah...
GUARD #1: So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...
[clop clop]
GUARD #2: Wait a minute -- supposing two swallows carried it together?
GUARD #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.
GUARD #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a standard creeper!
GUARD #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
GUARD #2: Well, why not?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PckDQzVL24

[TransformX]

Same place, other feathered friends...
BIRD PORN !!!

[Belwarrior]

i suppose only in MURC can anyone link or even think of a connection between Monty Python and anything else in question.

[Nowhere]

Nah, isn't connection between swallows and Monthy Python, like...obvious? (well, I guess not necesserilly in your cultural sphere, Belwarrior)

[Belwarrior]

Actually i've watched the Monty Python movies, cannot say that for my peers, my favourites are the killer bunny, black knight and of course the burning of the witch. i just didn't connect the swallows to the coconuts fast enough... i must be getting old