Our thanks go to Tibor Farkas who, responding to Ellen Netherby and the cormorant she spotted in April, has sent us another strange sighting of his own.
‘I was walking past St Andrew’s House when this ghostly chicken leapt off the pavement at me.
‘Or it may be a pigeon.’
Our thanks go to reader Ellen Netherby, who spotted this cormorant – the product of spilt paint and creative thinking – drying its wings on a pavement in Oxcraig Street, Granton.
‘Pareidolia’, according to Psychology Today, ‘is a phenomenon wherein people perceive likenesses on random images—such as faces, animals, or objects on clouds and rock formations. It is not a clinical diagnosis nor is it a disorder.
Look at the photo and what do you see?
Spurtle reader Tibor Farkas, who sent us this Bellevue Place detail, sees ‘a blood-soaked robin with an albino crayfish beside it’.
It is in fact a chance splash of paint next to some randomly tangled string and old Pot Noodles.