Took the side roads heading to the Houston airport yesterday and was lucky to catch a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher sitting on the side of the road with its mate. Beautiful bird with an insanely long tail. From the range maps, this is a bird that doesn't get much north of Kansas or Oklahoma, although I bet there are some sightings as far north as southern Illinois on occasion. Anyway, it is a lifer for me, number 313 on the lifer scale. Beautiful bird. I guess the long tail helps catching insects in mid-air as the bird is able to make sharp twists and turns as it flys.
