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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
Cute birdie, asaratis. Thanks.
I bet she was!As I read your post the birds outside my window are doing their morning routine.
I happen to live in a lovely place where birding is an everyday event.
Thus far I have indentified about 40 species of birds and there's three species as yet I have not been able to indentify.
I don't have a camera that's really good enough to capture good pictures of my feathered neighbors.
But to give you an idea of the sort of birding events that are fairly common here?
A month or so ago my Maine coon Cat lost her prey to a red tailed hawk in a knock down drag out fight that occured in my chincese goosberry arbor.
It was fantastic to witness this 20 or 30 second scuffle as that hawk stole my cat's capture.
My cat was less than impressed though.
Well, when I was young, I dreamed I could fly. The dreams were so real and vivid I thought, I know I can, and I spent a lifetime showing people how easy it was to fly in my dreams. I'd wake up, thinking, well, one of these days, I'll fly, that's all there is to it. I was still flying in my dreams at night into my thirties. But in my dreams, I'm not a bird. I'm fully human, and it's up, up, and away; come on everyone, it's easy. hahahaha!Ducks are amazing fliers. My father loved to hunt birds (and fish). He used to dream he was a duck, flying over water and land. The funny thing is...nobody else I know has dreams of flying. Except me! I have always dreamed I could fly. Sometimes I'm flying as me....but on a few memorable instances I've been an eagle, soaring over vast distances and terrain. Those are dreams worth having.
I sure hope you find them sometime soon and share them, koshergrl. A good shot of an American wild turkey is a coveted one.I have pics of dozens of wild turkeys somewhere...
Editec, if you ever see turkeys nearby again, I hope you have your camera in your car or handy somewhere! I'd positively love to see a Maine turkey. I saw two swarms of turkeys in the 35 years I lived in Wyoming. They ranged near Bate's Creek between Horton's Corner and Medicine Bow on the road to Laramie. They were so terribly awesome and a tribe. Once there were about 20 of them, and the other time there were at least 50.Yes, Becki, turkeys are rather commonly seen hereabouts. They've were reindroduced a while back (over a decade, I think) and their population is thriving here.
It is quite common to see flocks of ten or twenty or thirty foraging in people yards near the woods.
To date, however, I have yet to see even one on my land so, no, wild turkey is NOT yet among the 40 species of birds I include as having been sited on my land.
We also have blue herons who roost in the woods near the mill pond, Koshergirl. I often see two or three here at once. They are AMAZINGLY huge birds.
They're so primative looking its like having minature blue teradactals flying around the neighborhood.
They're seriously predators, too.
You'll thank GOD you're not a small animal, reptile or fish when you see one strike its prey.