Birds, Horses

Today on the NNMC campus, as I was heading to my car and a doctor's appointment, I caught a fast-moving object scuttling across the ground near me. It was a roadrunner. a second fast-moving object was right on its tail...a hummingbird. Maybe that roadrunner was trying to steal eggs. Though i doubt a hummingbird egg would make much of a meal for a high velocity individual such as he was... The horses across the road from us, next to the post office, are not being treated well. There are four of them on a big dirt patch. They can't find anything to eat and they get hay thrown at them once a day...and it is gone in a flash. This evening i watched from an upstairs window as someone pulled a horse trailer up and toll away one of the horses. The others looked like they wanted to go. The horse that was leaving had an arrowhead brand on its flank and bent to eat some green grass before it was herded into the trailer. One other horse, the one with white patches on its legs, came running full speed across the dirt when the other horse was being taken away.