A roadrunner was sunning himself behind a catcus yesterday when I dropped Laurie off at Tristan’s. Many years ago we had an infestation of roadrunners on the property. When we were gardening, five or six roadrunners would circle around us sizing us up to see if they could make a few meal out of us. Roadrunners seem more like dinosaurs than birds to me. After a couple of years of eating all the lizards, robins and other birds in the neighborhood they moved on. I haven’t seen a roadrunner in the yard in long, long time.
They’ve closed down several streets downtown the last few days for filming, forcing most of the traffic trying to get out of downtown onto 2nd Street. The problem is the lights are not timed to handle the extra traffic, so 2nd Street and all the side streets were jammed. While waiting to turn onto 2nd Street, I noticed the light on First Plaza was interesting. I finally got to Martin Luther King Jr. and while waiting in traffic to get on I-25, the light was nice on the old hospital building on MLK.
Off Center & Not Even 
We have a lot of roadrunners up here. I don’t care if they eat the lizards in the woodpile, but I don’t like it when they hang around the feeders waiting for other birds. You are right – they do remind me of dinosaurs, too.
When I first saw this picure of a road runner I thought it was the same roadrunner that I saw today sunning it self at the south door to Sandia Credit Union while I was waiting for Linda. It seemed oblivious to anyone walking close by.
Since birds evolved from reptiles maybe you see some of the traits of the early ancestors that had both reptile and modern day bird characteristics .
-I thought roadrunners only existed in cartoons and movies …. wow ………..they are real 🙂
And the real ones are nothing like their cartoon counterparts – they are deadly serious carnivores, with beaks that can snap the necks of other animals almost their size. They are very interesting creatures, just not funny. 😐