Roadrunner roost
It has been quite awhile since I last posted. We have been traveling quite a bit and catching up on chores, work, and hobbies. In early September we started seeing a roadrunner in the yard. I caught a few photos, but none of them were clear. I was not sure whether there was one bird or several coming around. In November, we returned from several weeks away to find that a roadrunner was roosting on our back porch. We stopped using the back porch so that we wouldn’t disturb her. She leaves each morning around 8:30 and returns each afternoon around 4:15. She stays in her roost all night. I have tried to get a decent photo of her, but was not successful, until today, Christmas Day. This afternoon I managed to video her flying from the ground up to her roost and to get a still shot of her sitting there. Her roost is on a sconce about 6 feet off the ground between a large window and a sliding glass door. We have named her Esperanza. Living in the desert is amazing. This was a...