SEP 29, 25.. ROADRUNNERS..

What is a Roadrunner?

You will see it spelled Roadrunner as well as Road Runner.

Let's ask Wikipedia!

The roadrunners, also known as chaparral birds or chaparral cocks, are two species of fast-running ground cuckoos with long tails and crests. They are found in the southwestern and south-central United States, Mexico and Central America, usually in the desert. Although capable of flight, and they do indeed fly sometimes, roadrunners generally run away from predators. On the ground, some have been measured at 32 km/h (20 mph).

Below are a few photos of Roadrunners.

Below is the Looney Tunes cartoon Roadrunner.

Let me tell each and everyone of you, if you aren't familiar with Roadrunners, these little rascals can really run. I mean they can really run fast. And they tend to "hang out in small groups".

I did not think it possible that a Roadrunner would get even close to a human being! These little rascals are way beyond "super skittish".

Do you want amazing?

Now for amazing!

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Meet our great friend and ally Tim down in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

Tim sent us the below photo!

Sitting on Tim's knee, as he sits on his porch, is one of Tim's pet Roadrunners!

Impossible Tim! You must be doing some trick photography!

Tim has a real sense of humor. He has named his tame Roadrunners.

The Roadrunner in the above photo is a male  named "Road". 

Roadrunners "Mate for Life". Tim calls Road's wife "Runner".

Sometimes (being a lady) Runner washes her hair and lets it dry in the warm desert sun!

Road and Runner are currently raising a chick named Beep Beep.

Well Hello Beep Beep! You are hungry!

Amazing Tim !!

Below I have added the three recent photos you sent to us.

Absolutely, Positively, Amazing Tim !!

Morning Breakfast!

Thank you so VERY, VERY, MUCH Tim, for sharing your Roadrunners with all of us! 

All of our readers are really enjoying your photos Tim!

Cap and Patti

JUL 15, 25.. OUR WILD CRANES HAVE RETURNED FOR A SECOND YEAR 2025 VISIT..

 On June the 28th, we published a Post showing the Cranes first visit with us this Summer of 2025. In case you haven't see this prior Post, clicking on the below link will enable you to look at it.

https://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2025/06/jun-28-25-our-wild-cranes-have-returned.html

Now we will share with you photos of their second visit on July the 7th.

Patti was just relaxing, looking out across the street from our bedroom when suddenly she called to me.. "Cap! Come quick! The Cranes are back!"

So out I dashed with my Smart Phone to shoot some more photos.

During their first visit, the Cranes were out in our backyard.

During this visit, they were out in front of our Condo.

As they were out crossing the street in front of our Condo, they calmly ignored and paid no attention to several passing vehicles. 

The vehicle drivers were very aware of them as they drove past very slowly and did not honk their horns at the Cranes.

Below is a link to our June 11, 2024, visit from the Cranes.

https://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2024/06/jun-11-24-our-wild-cranes-have-returned.html

Smiling..

Cap and Patti

JUN 28, 25.. OUR WILD CRANES HAVE RETURNED FOR A YEAR 2025 VISIT..

 I was literally sitting here at our laptop, mentally "wringing my hands" and sad and frustrated because, so far, we have not published any Posts on Google Blogspot yet in June 2025.

Then (Who knows why? A nudge from a Guardian Angel?) I casually glanced outside and there they were. Two wild Sandhill Cranes en route North! 

Our personal, very first ever sighting of the Cranes here at our Condo, occurred two years ago on Saturday, June the 10th, 2023, when the below two cranes just casually wandered into our lives out in front of our Condo.

They seemed to have absolutely no fear of us!

Two photos showing last years Crane visit on May the 26th, 2024.

Voila! Our visit on June 28th, 2025.

In Early Spring, sandhill cranes migrate north and can be seen in a variety of states in the West and Midwest, including Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Montana, Illinois and Indiana. 80 percent of all sandhill cranes in North America use a 75-mile stretch of Nebraska’s Platte River during spring migration. From March to April, more than 500,000 birds spend time in the area preparing for the long journey north to their breeding grounds in Canada and Alaska.

As summer approaches sandhill cranes are usually spotted in the most northern regions of the contiguous U.S. and in Canada and Alaska. About one-third of the entire North American population of sandhill cranes breeds in the boreal forest of Canada and Alaska. Outside of the Americas, they can be found as far north as Siberia.

As fall approaches, the cranes then reverse this treacherous journey and start to head South again.

We are just thrilled to have seen the Cranes again.

Out in our back yard area.

The Cranes "were on the move" so I had to race out back to photograph them the best I was able to accomplish.

And off they strolled!

Not that they can hear us but.. 

"Cranes. Thanks so very much for your third visit with us!"

Cap and Patti

AUG 24, 24 .. BULL ELK IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, COLORADO..

Rocky Mountain National Park is located approximately 65 miles Northwest of Denver, Colorado. The estimated driving time is an hour and a half.

The other day, while 'surfing the internet', Patti came across a very interesting news story about a small group of mountain bike riders encountering a group of six bull elk walking down a Park road toward them, past them, and disappearing without indicating they had even seen, let alone interacted with, the mountain bikers.

We found the article to be interesting and hope maybe you will also be interested in it.

This 'disclaimer' is interesting: A group of cyclists were stopped in their tracks when they ran into six bull elk on a trail at Rocky Mountain National Park. The video was first shared to Facebook by James Mason in June 2020. 

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It seems to me that this information is in 'the public domain'.

Wikipedia defines it as:

The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because no one holds the exclusive rights, anyone can legally use or reference those works without permission.

So I snapped a few 'screen shots'.

I Googled: Six Mass ... networks.com and could not comprehend who, or what, they are. Let alone seek formal permission to use this (now over four years old) information.

I want to at least say: 

Thank You Francis Xavier and James Mason, for taking the time, and going to the effort, to share your very interesting experience and photographs with the world wide web. 

I also Googled Francis Xavier and Wow! Your 'name sake' sure was phenomenal Francis!

The time has come to share a few of Francis' photos here with you all.

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And there they go, just 'ambling on'!

We thought this was interesting and enjoyable.

One never ever knows for sure what a wild animal in the 'wilderness' will do. Maybe these elk were 'very used to people'.

Smiling..

Cap and Patti

By the way! If you like numbers, here on Google Blogspot, this is our Post number, 1,111. Our very first Post was on October the 22nd, 2011.