Puzzle Description:

bird with a blue beak

#1: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Nov 26, 2008

Nice small image.

Very nice!

Puts me in mind of a cardinal. We really need yellow! I enjoyed it very much...thank you Harris.

I agree ... we need yellow or some sort of tan color. A very nicely detailed small puzzle. I liked the detail in the branch.

nice samll one

good job

Oh, it's my favorite bird, especially this time of year.

Very nice image. I really enjoy these little puzzles with great images.

I first thought it was a forest fire reflecting in a lake (filled with white water of course). Thanks

WOW! Shasta go out get some air : )

Even though this looks like a cardinal, not a blue jay, for some reason, this got me thinking of my favorite scene from Peter S. Beagle's "Last Unicorn":

A blue jay swooped low over them on that first day of their journey, said, "Well, I'll be a squab under glass," and flapped straight home to tell his wife about it. She was sitting on the nest, singing to their children in a dreary drone.

"Spiders and sowbugs and beetles and crickets,
Slugs from the roses and ticks from the thickets,
Grasshoppers, snails, and a quail's egg or two --
All to be regurgitated for you.
Lullaby, lullaby, swindles, and schemes,
Flying's not near as much fun as it seems."

"Saw a unicorn today," said the blue jay as he lit.

"You didn't see any supper, I notice," his wife replied coldly. "I hate a man who talks with his mouth empty."

I read people on the net who think that this illustrates the tension between mundane reality and fantasy in "The Last Unicorn". I think it illustrates that Peter Beagle really gets what blue jays are all about.

Aw, it's a Cardinal!

Really nice! I like this one!

A really nice puzzle featuring all the colors.

Thank you Jan - I've never heard of The Last Unicorn, but the excerpt captured me and I just bought it on Amazon ...

You keep giving, even from Beyond!

...and now you have me checking on it, too, Jan...lol!

I requested a copy from the library, and wonder if there's also a copy around the house somewhere.

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