Decapitated Bird (Warning: Yes, Really)

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 31st May 2006 - 20:25 GMT

I think those are its lungs hanging out. Unless it's a robin.

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 31st May 2006 - 20:26 GMT

sorry. that was mean and nasty. I'll go and be inhumane to myself now. sorry.

Chris Erb: 1st Jun 2006 - 00:58 GMT

I used to see this all the time. My mouse used to destroy birds in my lawn all the time. There were always feathers everywhere but no sign of a bird.

joey: 1st Jun 2006 - 02:58 GMT

thats an oxymoron (conjoining contradictory terms).
there is no such thing as 'nature's inhumanity'.

procyon: 1st Jun 2006 - 03:31 GMT

there were two fully feathered snow-white wings and a few bare gray bones connecting them in front of the building where i live a few weeks ago. since i started school in chicago i thought there were just a lot of birds exploding on campus for some reason, maybe because of the mythical power of wedding rice to blow them up (there are a ton of churches, parks and chapels near campus and a lot of people get married in them) or because of a science experiment (enrico fermi worked here).
then someone reminded me about birds of prey and all that.

procyon: 1st Jun 2006 - 03:32 GMT

um, in between the first and second sentence there is supposed to be something about how i see assorted fragments of birds lying around almost every day.

Peter: 1st Jun 2006 - 03:40 GMT

JEEFF BIRD

elaine: 1st Jun 2006 - 07:06 GMT

maybe the killer was interrupted. it looks like quite a bit of tasty whatever is left, there.

aer suzuki: 1st Jun 2006 - 08:52 GMT

That's a beautiful image, seriously. I mean, yeah, I can feel sorry for the bird, but I can also look at it and think : 'Man, the colors and texture are fantastic.' Cool shot, the leaves almost look arranged.

jack: 1st Jun 2006 - 11:38 GMT

also animals are not humans, therefore, there can be no nature's inhumanity.

Peter: 1st Jun 2006 - 13:50 GMT

i love those maple seed-pods. when i was a kid, we called them "helecopters", because we'd collect a ton of em, separate them all into individual pods, then toss em up into the air and watch them twirl down.

i suppose i was an easily entertained kid...

little ukraine: 1st Jun 2006 - 14:19 GMT

joey, jack, i think he's making a joke in reference to the caption of the infamous 'cat in ice' post. awesome, jeeff.

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 1st Jun 2006 - 15:24 GMT

Peter, we used to play the same game. But these days, it's called "Black Ops Death Strike: Take out the Terror Cell."

EvilGentleman: 1st Jun 2006 - 15:54 GMT

I always wondered where McNuggets came from. Now I know. Thanks.

jeeff: 1st Jun 2006 - 16:33 GMT

little ukraine is right, i was only poking fun. as peter knows, i seem to have an affinity for dismembered bird corpses. as for the maple seedpods, they are called keys!

jeeff: 2nd Jun 2006 - 03:06 GMT

i should also note that during the trip we saw an improbable number of dead birds. i could have done a series. at one point we climbed up on a roof to photograph some graffiti (photo #5) and there were 3 dead chicks of varying age scattered across the roof. fairly large, pigeons i'd guess. must have been a failed nest. it was creepy.