I will be putting up a poll of the captions entered on Saturday 15 October. So you have a whole week to get creative!
Last week’s winner is: Lisa from Woman Wielding Words – see her caption here.
When you spend time watching animals and birds in the bush, you often see them in amusing situations or poses. It always makes me wonder what they’re thinking. It’s so easy to ascribe human emotions to them. So I thought I’d give you all a chance to think up captions for some of the funnier photographs we have taken. The winner (which I’ll pick) unfortunately will not be getting a big prize, just have the honour of being named the winner! If you can think of a good one (or several), please leave a comment.
The NEW Rules:
(1) You may only enter one caption – if you think of several during the week, then indicate which one you want to enter by Saturday.
(2) On Saturday I’ll create a poll so that readers can vote for their favourite. You only get one vote – use it wisely! You can (theoretically) vote for yourself, but please only do so if you are convinced yours is the best caption.
(3) Since, you the reader chooses the winner, anyone may enter (including me and Willie! 
). Hey, it’s my blog!
If you need any guidelines for writing a caption read Writing a good humour caption.
The setting: A stretch of road in the Northern Cape (South Africa). On either side of the road is a telephone pole with a Sociable Weaver nest (each housing many birds) on it, and stretched in-between the two poles/nests is a telephone wire. A little bird sits perched on the wire.
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Oh joy! I can enter again!!! 🙂
Here are some early thoughts.
“Yeah, sure – I just love playing messenger!”
or
“Sometimes, it sucks being the middleman . . .er bird!”
– It IS possible to get lost in broad daylight.
– Behold, the Anti Sociable Weaver
– Lost: the longest distance between two points.
LOL These three are great!
Uhm, okay I had to eeny-meeny-miny-mo my entry.
Let’s go with:
Behold, the Anti Sociable Weaver
I am SO LOVING this series Lisa! Those nests are unbelievable!
That picture reminds me of a short animated movie by Pixar about birds sitting on a wire.
Don’t think I ever saw that. Wonder if it’s available online?
Are you all telephone poles or cell phone towers?
A clever caption!
Oh, wow! Thank you, thank you. I’m glad you fixed my typo. I know I can’t be considered for the next two weeks, but I might try to be creative anyway. It’s good practice.
Gosh, Clouded Marbles’ comments are hysterical. I wonder if you might not take this series a step further by allowing readers to vote on their favorite caption. I think that would be fun, too. Again, a great series, Lisa!
Kathy
Actually Kathy I was considering doing just that! I find it extremely difficult to choose a winning caption.
“When it rains, at least I’ll know where to go.”
Thanks for leaving a caption! 🙂
“This can’t be what they meant when they said I should tap the wire!”
“And from these humble beginnings, Albert the Adventurous Weaver Bird launched his career as a high-wire trapeze artist in a travelling circus …”
LOL Very funny!
Giggle… – thanks, Lisa. I’ve been pondering these captions in my subconscious for a while. Incubating them, I think is what it’s called?
Hi Lisa – I’ll go for this one as my entry. 🙂
“One nervous hop, and one sideways shuffle at a time, Shy Lionel – pretending to inspect the local telephone connection – inched towards the residence of his Beloved Lucy on the other side of the road.”
“After months of struggling to hear each other on the telephone because of the constant chirruping and squawking on the line, the residents of two neighbouring Karoo dorpies demanded that a Telkom technician be sent out to investigate.
This is what he found.”
‘Come on guys, let me in. I promise not to pass gas inside anymore.’
LOL That’s a different take to the rest of us!
“Alone . . . so alone. And I even fixed up the guest bedrooms. Sigh.”
LOL Thanks for leaving a caption! After seeing this week’s captions I’m SO glad that I don’t have to pick one!
This Line Dancing is a lot harder than I thought.
Nice take! Thanks for leaving a caption! 🙂
“No-one had the guts to tell Carl that he was taking the “cutting all lines of communication” a little too seriously…”
Nice one! Everyone is getting so creative with this one – I thought it would be a more difficult one to do.
I’ll admit – this one has taken a little more time for me.. and I got so side-tracked by Reggie”s “Albert the adventurous” high-wire one, I couldn’t think up anything different for ages!