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This bird showed up in my Portland, Texas, residential neighborhood. Completely out of the expected habitat, but it definitely seems to have found a food supply among the local anole lizards. I've been watching but haven't spotted it again.
Always fun birds to find. Animated and entertaining although this one didn't play very long before he sped away in a cloud of dust. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
I was starting to think I wouldn't get any good photographs today. Then I pulled into the Borders parking lot and saw this sweet ride sitting in front of me, waiting for my lens to caress it's brilliant red coat.
big feet, short tail, short beak, short wings.
One of the baby roadrunners. (The other disappeared the same day they left the nest. Probably a cat, maybe a hawk.)
Poole Fireworks November the 5th, we thought this looked like the famous roadrunner.
Meep meep or beep beep
The roadrunner feeds almost exclusively on other animals, including insects, scorpions, lizards, snakes, rodents and other birds. Up to 10 % of its winter diet may consist of plant material due to the scarcity of desert animals at that time of the year.
Because of its lightening quickness, the roadrunner is one of the few animals that preys upon rattlesnakes. Using its wings like a matador's cape, it snaps up a coiled rattlesnake by the tail, cracks it like a whip and repeatedly slams its head against the ground till dead.
It then swallows its prey whole, but is often unable to swallow the entire length at one time. This does not stop the roadrunner from its normal routine. It will continue to meander about with the snake dangling from its mouth, consuming another inch or two as the snake slowly digests.
“Roadrunner” — A greater roadrunner, Death Valley National Park.
After more than two-and-a-half decades of visiting Death Valley National Park, you’d think that I would have see quite a few of these birds. But, no, this is the first time I have encountered one. Actually, there were two. I arrived at my campsite and was getting my gear out when a couple of them started investigating my stuff.
I was surprised at how close they got. I would have assumed, especially having never run into them here before, that they would have been more sky and cautious. In any case, I grabbed one of my cameras and put a long lens on it, and I managed to squeeze off a few photographs before the birds decided to go investigate someone else’s campsite.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him.
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park - while coming out of the Visitor Center we spotted this Greater Roadrunner with a lizard which posed nicely and times too close even for a 400mm and then we discovered that it was just trying to get to it's nest in a palm tree right outside the visitor center which was cordoned off with a yellow tape by the park rangers
I found a fairly cooperative roadrunner, so you're probably going to be peppered by RR shots. I might as well start early so I can sprinkle them among other landscapes. I hope I don't bore you with too many, but I can't tell you how excited I was to be able to get some good shots!
In general, I tend to think a lot about how the things I build would function if they were real. This often keeps me from doing things that might be fun, because they don't make sense. I'm trying to let go of that just a little, so I decided to make something that is impractical, but fun. I still thought about how it might work, but I wasn't as concerned about whether or not it actually would.
I heard this one calling and luckily had the camera. Even though it was mostly in shadows I did get a decent shot before it ran off down the road.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas