Phantom Bird

[annie oakley]

I still can't figure out what this bird is kids......it's bright, bright yellow...almost phloresent (spelling) and has the physical look of a blue jay except it's yellow....it has me totally bugged. I guess I will have to get a camera and try.....I repeat TRY...to catch it on film. I nearly wrecked my NEW truck yesterday Morning going to work.....I hadn't been on the road 5 minutes...had gotton up to 60 mph when out of no where came an extremly large doe across the front of my truck....I hit the brakes and missed her...nearly had to go home and change my undies. Took me about 10 minutes to get my heart out of my throat. Scare me. We have alot of lizzards around west Texas....but we now have one digging a burro right next to the porch on the outside of the fence. Extreme fun for my little Jasmine and Buckmaster. They love it...if he stays much longer I will have to name the little fella. We also have the armadillo's diggin holes around the property. I hate it because I will most likely step in them...so huibby has been fillin them back up. We have so much wildlife here on the Prickly Pair Ranch that it scares me sometimes. I haven't seen the Bobcats lately tho. The turkeys are still roosting here...which means babies...yeah!!!!!!Well got to run and fix supper....deer burgers and chips...Iced Tea. Love ya'll Oma

[starfire]

Prickly Pair Ranch

I love it!! Love it!!! LOVE IT!!!

You guys don't even NEED a TV with all that going on outside your window. So glad you missed the deer (and DIDN'T have to go back home).

Shirley

[Mars]

You must be very content to live where you do, Oma! I understand why you wanted to move there.

Teach that other deer to hit your truck, you'll just EAT EM!

[annie oakley]

Yep! we will eat them if they get in the way....and yes I love it here. To hear the coyotes howling at night is sooo cool. Just as the Hoot owls get going. Love Oma

[MaggieRedwings]

Hi Oma,

I sounds like a phantom bird. The only bird that I could think possible is the Yellow Headed Blackbird and that is only yellow on the head. It could be an domestic escapee of some sort of Parakeet or larger Canary. Please try and get a picture if you can.

Also like the Prickly Pear Ranch!!

Love, Maggie

[Jean]

I'm thinking the bird is a Cockatiel. They do have a mutation called lutino that is all yellow.

I want to live where you do, I'd love to see the wildlife there.

Love, Jean

[Momster]

It kind of sounds like a wild canary, but they're quite small. Hope you can get a picture.

We get lots of robins this time of year and have stellar jays, chickadees, wrens, crows, eagles, etc. I love birds and the sound of the robins singing in the morning really starts the day nicely.

Glad you missed the deer and didn't wreck your truck. Don't know if you remember when Pegster and I hit that deer last year on our way home from the WCPPG, but that was an awful experience. On a freeway that size, there was no choice but to hit it because veering can cause an awful accident when you're in 4 lanes of speeding traffic.

I love living where there is wildlife and we don't get it to the extent you do because we live on the outskirts of a city, but do see racoons and opossums and the odd coyote.

Love - Momster

[tex]

I agree with Maggie and Jean. A couple of months back, we had a beautiful turquoise colored bird in one of our pastures. I saw it regularly for about a month, and then it disappeared--maybe it's owner reclaimed it, because it always hung out right beside a public road. I assume it was a cockatiel.

Love,
Wayne

[annie oakley]

I will try and get it on a picture...but it is as big as a blue Jay. Love Oma

[Jean]

Oma,

Next time you see the bird, look to see if the bill is hooked (a parrot) or straight like a song bird. There is a slight possibility it could be a mutation color of a blue jay.

Love, Jean

[annie oakley]

Ok I will look to see, but hubby and I both remarked that he was the size of a blue jay.......and of course eyes can play tricks on you. Love Oma