I have a new friend

[sundial]

Thanks Mimi, I'll go to town and get suet.

[Aggie_Ama]

They rarely stay still long enough to get such great shots!We have one or two lurking in the undeveloped section of the neighborhood. I think they may be one of my favorite native critters, so fast too! We also have a couple foxes just outside the neighborhood, I always see them near the old man's house with the chickens but he has consistently had 6 chickens so I guess the foxes haven't gotten them as I would expect.

[Tuckervill]

So I drove up to Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, where my bike club was having a training camp (and rock climbing, woot!). It's a long rough gravel road into the canyon, and the canyon floor was covered with sheep, goats and horses. I'm gazing out over the flocks while I slowly come down the road and out of the corner of my eye something STREAKS right in front of my car, and lands on the other side in the grass. A roadrunner.

First one I've seen in years and years. It was cool. I thought of y'all.

Karen

[sundial]

Where's Horshoe Canyon Ranch?? Sounds like my kind of place to play.

[Tuckervill]

It's outside of Jasper (remember Dogpatch?). Jasper is south of Harrison on Hwy 7.

Karen

[jesvetmed]

Too cool. Up until now, the only "road runner" I'd seen was the one my dad brought back from a vacation (it wasn't real... it was wooden ). It sat on our mantle for years! He never made a sound, by the way!

Yours is actually a cute little bugger. Who knew he'd be so deadly? Good to keep around the house from the sounds of things, as long as your bird feeders are WAY up high.

I made the mistake (only once) of feeding the birds on a flat surface not covered. It took all but 20 minutes for me to find a falcon feeding on one of the poor little birds I had baited for him. That was awful. Beautiful falcon, though. As soon as he had, well, finished his meal, I headed out and cleaned up all the birdseed in the area and hid it into a feeder under the covered porch areas. Lesson well learned the hard way.

Thanks for sharing your great photos!

[sundial]

Peet walked right in front of my storm door and called out. I grabbed the camera and headed outside not knowing how many, if any, pictures I was going to get. He surprised me with quite a show! He was calling and I was talking back to him and he came within 25 feet of me.