SIMULACRA CORNER

We are always glad to receive pictures of spontaneous forms and figures, or any curious images. Send them (with your postal address) to Fortean Times, PO Box 1200, Whitstable CT1 9RH or to sieveking@forteantimes.com.

1 Tim Emblem-English’s mother spotted this bird-shaped bird poo on her window.

2 Lesley Maby sent us this likeness of Elvis captured in a seagull dropping.

3 This birds’ dropping resembling a bird was photographed by Claire Reid, who had found it on her father’s car.

4 Sean Urell from Crumlin in Ireland thought this bird poo stain looked remarkably like WB Yeats in profile – sans pince-nez.

5 Matt Toplis writes: “A seagull left its calling card on the balcony window of our flat in Weston-super-Mare [Somerset] in the shape of a man’s head. He seems to be wearing a cap.”