I gave myself some car sickness trying to use my cell phone to identify the thing on my way to a wedding a few days later.
Finally, I found somebody else's blog with the perfect matching image to my own photo here. It seems this cute bird is nesting prior to her migration to Brazil for the winter months.
Click this link to read what I did if you are interested.
Black Swift Migration Mystery Solved After 165 Years
It isn't that easy to spot these little cuties because they fly quite high to eat larger flying insects and nest in some pretty remote places. They do however live all over the western region of North America! So, maybe you will someday see this sweet little bird for yourself.
She was quite brave, we got quite close to her and she just glared her beedie eyes at me waiting for me to leave.
I was also introduced to a Horsehair Worm, GROSS! Lemme show you the strangest worm I've ever seen.
These are some of the craziest things I've seen to date. It is one of 350 known species of it's kind. It can reach up to 40 inches long. In it's larval stage, it attaches to other insects such as beetles and grasshoppers and injects them with a neurological chemical that causes them to seek water and drown themselves! This helps them to return to the water and become the worm you see here once they emerge from the now dead and softened carcass of it's host. BLECH!
Here's more about it if you click this link.
Absurd Creature of the Week, Horsehair Worm
I hope you enjoyed the good news/gross news post today!
