Do Chickens Have Tongues?????

I don't usually draw birds

but I did draw this kookaburra as it is my bloody alarm clock at the moment

which wouldn't be so bad if it did what it was supposed to

Indigenous Australians believe that a kookaburra visiting 

means that good fortune will follow close behind

now I'm not sure if this one is just defective

and its constant presence means good fortune doesn't have a chance to visit

or perhaps all that good stuff is just still tucked up in bed because it is 5 freakin am

and to add insult to injury you have to wake up to the slightly off putting feeling

of something laughing at you

This is no gentle Cinderella wakening where the sweet birds

lay out your clothes and do your hair

no I get the raucous laughter from beady eyed carnivorous one

which is totally doing my head in

The family issues with the feathered ones has also extended itself to the dog

and doing Mushu's head in is the reappearance of his nemesis bird

Spring has sprung and this one bird is back from his regular winter break

it sits on the edge of the pool and refuses to move so he can do his laps

it sits on the chair and watches him while he is trying to sleep in his bed

and every time the poor thing closes his eyes it squalks and wakes him up

and to add insult to injury it poos on him

I couldn't count the number of times he has come in crying covered in bird poo

just the sound of its squalk drives him into a mad barking frenzy 

and he spends half the day running around the yard and looking up in the sky

it is one evil nemesis

but it only arrives at change of season 

and like the hay fever that is with us all for a week or two

he will soon disappear again until next year

but until then the mutt is copping it

Just as nemesis bird disappears then magpie season will start 

and it will be Sinuse's turn to have bird issues

he will be constantly swooped and pecked

and walking the dog becomes life and death obstacle course

personally I would walk a different route until the season was done

but not my dear man and mutt

perhaps they enjoy the delicious danger this brings to their daily ambles

Of course dear Jet Puff / Phantom has no real bird issues

don't think any bird would be game to swoop, laugh at or poo on her

I am thinking they probably find her a touch odd

clearly evidenced by her question to me just the other night

as to how big do I think a chicken's tongue is????

Like I would know that answer, and how do you even think of a question like that

I didn't even know chicken's had tongues???

I haven't been game to ask her if she found out, and can't be bothered googling it

so I am in a horrible limbo of not knowing 

my life is really very odd at times

Happy Sunday Sketches...xx

P.S thanks so much for all the Birthday wishes over the last few days

you all made it a very special day especially Kristin

who is a punny punny girl and who wrote an eggcellent post to celebrate it...xx

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