One of the top birding sites for purchasing bird feeders, BirdFeeders.Com, just awarded my web site an award for having a top hummingbird photograph. Before I accepted this award I checked out their site and found their web service provides lots of useful information, not just the selling of bird feeders. Here is the award, and my photograph!
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
For almost 900 miles of bicycling I have wanted to photograph the Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher. Finally yesterday morning a male struck a nice pose. The males do wonderful acrobatics when they go a courting.
Molly and I are loving the Ozarks. The countryside is lush, green and beautiful. You may read my full trip diary via this link.
Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
Molly looks out over our route and the Ozarks
Our route through Day #21 … 900 miles of cycling
We are 15 days and over 650 miles into our bike tour through Texas, the Ozarks, and finally along the Missouri River. Today was a good day for riding and the back roads provided both birding and “purple cow” viewing opportunities! For Molly and me, a purple cow is a unique, somewhat unusual roadside attraction.
Early in the day we stumbled upon where Barbie Cars go to die, a Barbie Car Graveyard! See the photo. Later in the afternoon Molly spotted some Cattle Egrets. It was fun to observe these birds, which do not come north as far as Minnesota utilizing a horse for a more effective hunt for insects! Apparently livestock helps these birds be 50% more productive at hunting. Wonder what the horse gets out of the relationship?!
You may follow our trip diary via the Crazy Guy on a Bike Portal. Here some photos from today.
