This month Becky’s Squares are focusing on odd things – you can interpret this any way you want so I am going to take you all to the zoo this month. San Diego Zoo to be precise and the photos featured will be either odd looking animals, animals with odd names, odd facts or slightly odd photos. I hope you’ll enjoy my selection.
Quite an odd date today too: 22/02/2022 which is a palindrome date, you can read it both forwards and backwards (at least in the UK). Day 22
The secretary bird’s English name was once thought to come from the 1800s, when Europeans first spotted these birds. Back then, male secretaries wore grey tailcoats and dark knee-length pants. They also used goose-quill pens that they carried behind their ears. This long-legged bird shares many of these same physical features: long, dark quills at the back of the head; long, grey wing and tail feathers that resemble a tailcoat; and black feathers that go midway down the legs like short pants.
We are into the last week of the ODD SQUARES month so please join in with Becky and the Square gang; the only rule is that the main photo MUST be a square – that is four equal sides! You have been warned 😉
TRAVEL WORDS 
I love these birds, and luckily enough to have two only a few miles from us in England!
PS today’s date is surprisingly difficult to say!
Marwell Zoo? I did see some in Africa. They are quite large for birds that can fly.
He looks wonderfully efficient. I wonder if there’s much call for shorthand these days?
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I love these birds. Saw a book on them when a youngster 🙂
They are quite wonderful looking.
He does look odd with his black knickerbockers. The date is read that way here too. Pretty cool.
And if you read today’s date upside down on a digital watch, that’ll work too. Apparently that’s called an ambigram. According to my secretary … bird 😉
I don’t have a watch, but that’s pretty cool/wicked /sick 😎
I could do with a secretary bird who would write my blogs for me. I think of an idea but when I sit down at the computer I think of something more important that needs doing and the idea never comes to fruition! What an efficient looking bird. Really, I mean, it does look efficient, doesn’t it?
I think we could all make use of a secretary bird!
Nor me. Someone sent me an image.
Strange bird, goes with its name!
It really is a great name.
Is he taking your notes?
That would be useful 😊
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it looks like a combination of many different birds
Beautiful capture Jude! I saw two of them in the veld, but did not get a clear photo of them!
They are lovely birds, I was lucky to see some in Namibia.
Fantastic to see them
Great legs, but can it type? (Although today it would be “keyboard”, I suppose.) I’m enjoying your zoo oddities and what a great idea to have a theme for the challenge. It’s a lovely bird, at least to me.
Thanks Janet, glad to hear you’re enjoying the theme.