The first Scissortail of the year arrived at my house yesterday and I'm sure he'll be hanging up and down this fence row all summer. Even in my childhood, I found the Scissortail to be one of the most fascinating birds of the plains. Of course he's the state bird of Oklahoma, but that well deserved title pales in comparison to the beauty of his sleek form and the distinctive salmon swatch of color matched against his multitude of monochromatic gray feathers, not to mention the elongated scissor like tail feathers for which he got his name. I've seen them hang in the air like a hummingbird or dive from the heights like a Stuka to pick off a fly, but just hanging out on a barbed wire is fine with me. And thanks for the handle, without which I may have been forced into referring to myself by some others description, and that might not have been flattering a'tal.
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