Things to ponder

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

With a rubber duck, one's never alone. --"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Lame Duck: A politician whose goose is cooked.

1000 mockingbirds = one kilomockingbird

I planted some bird seed.  A bird came up.  Now I don't know what to feed it.

You can cage a swallow can't you, but you can't swallow a cage can you? (...a palindrome, get it?)    [from John Mueller]

YOU KNOW YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY WHEN...
The bird singing outside your window is a vulture.

A FORTUNE COOKIE YOU'LL NEVER SEE...
A bird in hand makes hard to blow nose.

A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
  -- Dixon Merritt (1910)