WINGSCAPES

Greater Roadrunner Chicks in Arizona

Shirley and Wayne from Cottonwood, Arizona have let us know that the Greater Roadrunner eggs have hatched!

Stay tuned for more from Shirley and Wayne!

Shirley writes:

Well, here are the first pictues of the roadrunner chicks. They are probably one, maybe two, days old. There were five eggs in the nest, and all five have hatched. Their first day was very cold and wet! Temperatures dropped about 40 degrees from the record high temps earlier in the week, and it rained for two days. The adult RRs stayed near the nest and protected their chicks from the rain. Each time they left the nest, they were completely soaked. But they have been good parents so far.

One of the favorite foods of the roadrunner, so we have been told, is baby quail, unfortunately. Right now we still just have the one set of babies, but they are growing like crazy. I am having a tough time getting good picts for you, though. I'll keep trying!

To be continued...

Greater Roadrunner from Arizona

Shirley and Wayne from Cottonwood, Arizona purchased a BirdCam the beginning of May.  On the second day of shooting, they sent us these great shots. 

So far, they hold the record for the most BirdCam Life List pictures submitted.

We look forward to receiving more from Shirley and Wayne!

Shirley writes: (5/5/08)

We just got our camera set up to take pictures today and we are thoroughly delighted with our first pictures.

I noticed that on the Wingscapes life list you did not have any pictures of the Greater Roadrunner Here's a few for you.

We have a pair of roadrunner who have set up housekeeping in the honeysuckle vines on our patio. We have enjoyed watching their many trips bringing twigs or a mouthful of mud to their nest. They now have 5 eggs in the nest and have begun sitting on them. Most of those pictures were taken on our regular digital camera, but today we set up the bird cam to catch them going into the nest. The nest is about 4 feet off the ground so they take a leap into the nest and they are so fast that we haven't been able to catch them airborne, but here are a few pictures from on the ground today.

This afternoon the second package arrived with the mounting arm so we now have the cam set to take picts of the oriole feeder. We have three species of orioles coming in and will be sending those as we get them. It's only been one day, but we love this camera already!

To be continued...