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Thanks, Ernie. Great show.
The Summer tanager has a following at you tube it seems:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3pZ3t2i4E]Summer Tanager[/ame]
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What a character, Foxfyre.The Roadrunner is New Mexico's state bird. We get a lot of videos of them, but it is almost impossible to get a home video of a roadrunner really stretched out running full steam because they are so fast. But they are highly intelligent, funny with a sense of humor, and sometimes pretty sociable.
Kudos to this homeowner who got this footage of a roadrunner playing with their cat:
CAT AND ROADRUNNER - YouTube
That's exactly what I thought, Baruch, but someone already had a panacea that the bird was just vicious and that the cat refused to be its victim. The cat probably ate the eggs or chicks, too. *sigh*
Cat might have been looking for the nest and the chicks. One brave bird.
What a character, Foxfyre.The Roadrunner is New Mexico's state bird. We get a lot of videos of them, but it is almost impossible to get a home video of a roadrunner really stretched out running full steam because they are so fast. But they are highly intelligent, funny with a sense of humor, and sometimes pretty sociable.
Kudos to this homeowner who got this footage of a roadrunner playing with their cat:
CAT AND ROADRUNNER - YouTube
I am a little confused about the purpose of this thread. I was prepared to post a picture that could be used as the "standard" for all small measurements. Sorry.
I am a little confused about the purpose of this thread. I was prepared to post a picture that could be used as the "standard" for all small measurements. Sorry.
What a character, Foxfyre.The Roadrunner is New Mexico's state bird. We get a lot of videos of them, but it is almost impossible to get a home video of a roadrunner really stretched out running full steam because they are so fast. But they are highly intelligent, funny with a sense of humor, and sometimes pretty sociable.
Kudos to this homeowner who got this footage of a roadrunner playing with their cat:
CAT AND ROADRUNNER - YouTube
They really are. They can make a cat or dog or even a coyote's life miserable when they know they can do it safely. And they seem to know.
However this isn't really about the bird, but this footage of an angry mother rabbit attacking a snake is one of the most amazing things I've seen. But note the curious bird who approaches to watch the show.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E_SxwbotS0"]Rabbit Attacks Snake - YouTube[/ame]
Science has long taught us that these are creatures operating on pure instinct with no ability of independent thought. I have never believed that and the older I get, the less I believe it.
Rabbits will attack predators. It's hard to say whether the rabbit diverted the snake away from her underground nest or was trying to get her babies back.
I reran the video three times, and the bird has the head shape and a suspicious v-neck marking that wants me to say it could be a Western Meadowlark, but I'm not 100% certain. Most of the meadowlarks in Wyoming, where we lived for 35 years, were very, very shy. However, it could be that curiosity got the better of the bird's no-contact senses or it could've thought while the rabbit's away... baby rabbits can be quite tiny at first.