Urban Wildlife

 As we were seeing off a friend this Roadrunner walked right by me on the sidewalk and turned into our driveway where it perched on a rock.

That is typical behavior for this bold predator.  This one looked very sleek, perhaps a young bird born just this summer.  

Rain Dance

Reflections

Osteo Mystery

 I found this pretty little bleached bone while walking the dog and slipped it in a coat pocket.

By the time I got home, the bone had broken in half.

I'm assuming because of the hollowness that the bone originally belonged to a bird.  A quick look at the Wikipedia bird anatomy articles suggests the bone is part of the wing, the Humerus, as shown in this diagrammatic representation.

The birds we see at our feeders are mostly sparrows, finches and a few pigeons, and doves. And, lately, some suet has attracted the attention of a Curve-billed Thrasher.

The size of the bone looks about right for a pigeon.

Curve-billed Thrasher