Giant Cockerel, Pocket Park, Fort Smith, Arkansas

28 Replies to “Giant Cockerel, Pocket Park, Fort Smith, Arkansas”

1. I’d have been gaping at the cockerel it’s so big!!

   1. I dare say I was. Thanks for another month of inspiration!

      1. my pleasure 🙂

2. Great shot!

   1. I’d be a better bird photographer if they all let me creep up on them as close as this one.

3. I’ve never heard a rooster called a cockerel, although ‘cock’ is familiar enough. Now I’m supposing that ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’ and ‘cock of the walk’ come from a shortening of cockerel. This one’s especially fun.

   1. I’m more used to the word cockerel, though both are used here. I love his surprised look. 🙂

      1. I had not realised that a cockerel is younger than a year. Whether that rule applies to fake birds is another question.

         1. Interesting – I hadn’t known that they were defined by age. I guess a fake cockerel is like Peter Pan – never grows into a rooster!

   2. I associate the word with ‘having to do’ Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale for some exam at school. I re-read it a few days ago and thought it a strange choice (unless they wanted to teach us apostrophes). The Parliament of Fowls would have been better.

4. Now that pic made me smile! I wonder if the amusement park is still there. 🤔

   1. I think it is, although it has had new owners since then.

5. He has a rather shocked look! Perhaps he can’t believe it’s closed.

   1. I think he crowed out, “Stop the whirl – I want to get off” and now he’s off, he’s not sure what to do about it.

6. That’s a cheery chappie!

   1. With a great go-faster haircut as if he is fresh from a fairground ride.

      1. 🙂

7. That KEEP OUT sign seems very rude considering how everything else seems to say COME IN AND PLAY. I’d be tempted to sneak in. (Maybe that rooster just noticed someone doing exactly that!)

   1. I can just imagine you sneaking over the gate.

8. Looks like a county fair. We have them here too, though I don’t recall seeing a rooster quite that large at any of ours.

   1. He’s a fine specimen. I’ve been to the country fair in Jackson, MS. I don’t think British people would associate ‘country fair’ with that kind of spectacle though!

9. He looks quite shocked!

   1. I suspect he’s waiting for hair and makeup and there’s a huge pile of cornflakes just out of shot. Perhaps they’ve done the hair and he’s not too happy.

10. I love the look 🙂

    1. He has a very expressive eye.

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12. I adore giant fiberglass animals. They conquer ennui every time!

    1. I suppose if they did not, their lives would be one long drag, just standing around, waiting.

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