Spoonbill Reducks

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Donald Trump, Pig Monster.
The nesting mound. More bark has been added to the mix since yesterday.
Male Brush Turkey, a large black bird with a naked red head and yellow neck wattles, scratching up more soil, bark and leaf litter for his nesting mound. His feet are very large and tipped with heavy claws, as befits a member of the family Megapodiidae.
Brush Turkey nesting mound in progress. Actual Brush Turkey in the distant L of picture. The concrete footpath is completely covered in soil and leaf litter.
Male Brush Turkey building a nesting mound in the front yard of a block of flats in Sydney's Inner West.
Reaper Bones Bugbear, looking grumpy and pointing with his left hand. He wears leather armour, including scale pauldrons, studded greaves, and segmented vambraces.
Thog, the nine-foot tall blue plush monster from The Muppet Show. A gentle soul.
View from summit of kunanyi/Mt Wellington over nipaluna/Hobart. Boulders and multicoloured alpine vegetation in foreground.
Michael Whelan's cover art for H. Beam Piper's 'Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen'. The title character, a blond man with a neatly-trimmed beard, wearing red shirt and breeches, cavalry boots, and a breastplate, is seated on an ornate throne in front of a statue of a wolf-headed war god carrying a spiked mace. Kalvan's left hand rests on an unsheathed sabre, and in his right hand he holds a Pennsylvania State Police-issued revolver.
Hackney Gazette banner headline. "Man dies in human fireball again"
Poster for the 1981 film 'Prince of the City' starring Treat Williams.
Forum Theatre, Melbourne. Faux-Moorish decorated theatre built in 1929. There are some odd gargoyle faces on the exterior, reminiscent of the flying head in John Boorman's 'Zardoz'.
Roadworks outside the St James Theatre, Elizabeth St Sydney. The theatre was demolished in 1971.
Telegraph pole fallen across 1.5 kV overhead power lines after being damaged by the 2019/20 bushfires in Australia's Blue Mountains. Line was closed for months.
Bad guy vehicles from 'Mad Max: Fury Road', bristling with weaponry and thundering across the wasteland.
The Pale Man from Guillermo del Toro's 2006 masterpiece 'Pan's Labyrinth'. He is hairless with sagging skin, and eyes in the palms of his hands. He bears a strong facial resemblance to Mitch McConnell.
Castle Aargh!
Single puffin standing alone and unafraid, Ynys Sgomer/Skomer Island, Cymru/Wales
The Woman in Black (1989), THAT scene.
Red Saunders photo tableau of Wat Tyler's Peasant Revolt. Awesome pic of a crucial piece of working people's history.
A Dwarven Warrior Woman in full armour with a green gem at the top of her helmet.
Fake Heroes by Otto English
It's a Chinese lute called a pipa. Hey, you said you could use one!
Jürgen Klopp looking like the toothy Trivago guy.
Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae)♂️ perched on a rock at Fairy Bower, near Manly Beach, Sydney.
Three Talosians from Star Trek's pilot episode, 'The Cage'. Frail, grey-robed robed aliens with bulbous crania.
Fire elemental, a swirling column of flame with humanoid head and arms.
Heat map of Italy. Orange through to red in the south, yellow to green in the north. Caption: Literally all statistics about Italy.
Scene from an Asterix comic: Getafix the Druid tells Obelix he can't have any magic potion. "Non, Obélix, non!"
Trelayne, the self-styled Squire of Gothos, from the original series of Star Trek. He wears elaborate 18th century garb and is playing a harpsichord. TBH, he resembles Liberace.
Flood, the 1990 album by They Might Be Giants
Spider Jerusalem, Outlaw Journalist of the Future. A bald man smoking a cigarette while standing on the ledge of a skyscraper. He has a tattoo of a spider on his head, and wears a pair of glasses with a rectangular green right lens, and a round red left lens. He is shirtless, revealing chest tattoos, but is wearing a black jacket and trousers. A brown leather satchel hangs from his right shoulder. He regards the viewer with a sardonic smile.
Poster for Prophecy (1979). A fanged and clawed abomination in an amniotic sac.
The great red-legged Scissor Man, from the 19th C German children's book, Struwwelpeter (Shock-Haired Peter), an anthology of cautionary rhymes to terrify children into good behaviour. The Scissor Man punishes children who suck their thumbs by amputating the offending digits.
The submarine Seaview from 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'. Produced by Irwin Allen in 1964. The submarine is breaching the surface like a humpback whale, which seems implausible.
A small yellow ladybird beetle with black markings on its carapace. Not spots. They divide the surface like the plates on a tortoise shell.
An American flag with green replacing the blue.
The protagonist of The Woman In Black, solicitor Arthur Kidd, stands in a graveyard looking across at a woman dressed in the mourning garb of a generation before. He is the only one who sees her, but when he mentions it to his local associate, the man is fear-stricken...
Sign at a Sydney plant nursery: "Dogs no longer allowed unless contained to trolley or dog pram."
Giant tortoise.
Trump inflating his throat sac to attract females.
Cat mummy, British Museum. Wrapped cylinder with a cat head on top, basically. NO SIGNS OF TRAUMA!
Motte of Warwick Castle, with a large round tower. A small red banner bearing the emblem of the Ragged Staff in white is visible at the base of the motte.
Maria Island viewed from Raspins Beach, Tasmania.
Another even more Barnaby-like blobfish.
Josef Stalin. "Good meme, Comrade. I shall seize and redistribute this."
Blobfish. Barnaby in undersea form.
Yello-Cheeked Honeyeater perched on a casuarina branch. Narrawallee Inlet, NSW.
The Choco Leibniz and the Fig Newton. Two biscuits which claim to have discovered calculus.
Jane Hume smiling with the caption, "Congratulations! It's terminal!"