| mentula ( @ 2006-11-23 20:14:00 |
Wildlife
So a few weeks ago I was sitting in my cab out near the airport (which is north of town). It was the last real warm day of the year. I was just reading my paper, listening to the radio and killing time, when I heard a weird clicking noise from outside the cab. I looked up to see a Roadrunner, its claws clicking against the asphalt, chasing after a moth. I have never seen a roadrunner outside of a zoo (or a cartoon) and I didn't even think they lived this far north, but it was undoubtedly a roadrunner. A little taller than a rooster, with long, very powerful legs. The son of a bitch looked almost insane the way he ran around crazily going after prey, an sprial/zig-zag, that lasted about ten minutes around my cab, then abruptly ended when the bird saw something it wanted in the distance and ran like Hell until it was out of view.
Didn't see any coyotes.
So a few weeks ago I was sitting in my cab out near the airport (which is north of town). It was the last real warm day of the year. I was just reading my paper, listening to the radio and killing time, when I heard a weird clicking noise from outside the cab. I looked up to see a Roadrunner, its claws clicking against the asphalt, chasing after a moth. I have never seen a roadrunner outside of a zoo (or a cartoon) and I didn't even think they lived this far north, but it was undoubtedly a roadrunner. A little taller than a rooster, with long, very powerful legs. The son of a bitch looked almost insane the way he ran around crazily going after prey, an sprial/zig-zag, that lasted about ten minutes around my cab, then abruptly ended when the bird saw something it wanted in the distance and ran like Hell until it was out of view.
Didn't see any coyotes.