Someday I'll get shots like this as soon as our wild Roadrunners get used to me!
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Howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas!
This is my post for the #featheredfriday challenge which is now hosted by the lovely and gracius @melinda010100.
We have lots of birds here in redneck country but they normally don't cooperate by coming up close to the house and my cheap camera has a zoom range of about 20 feet so I don't get alot of decent shots. lol.
I did get lucky this week though because a pair of Cardinals came up close to the house and so did our Road Runners, yay! I took these through the screen though so they aren't the sharpest.
The female Cardinal almost blended with the yard, I didn't even see her at first.
Like most species the male is much more colorful:
And here they are together:
I finally caught our Roadrunners together. It's dang near impossible to do because although the couple always work as a team, they're usually about 20 to 50 feet apart. So this is a rare shot but it's about 50 ft away so it's not real clear.
Here they are closer to the house:
These guys are great because they patrol all around our house eating insects, scorpions, small lizards. They're extremely quick. In fact, they're one of the few animals quick enough to attack and kill rattlesnakes.
Thanks guys and thanks for hosting this challenge Melinda, see you soon!
-jonboy
Texas
God bless you all!
