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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bird Boy" data-source="post: 2095607" data-attributes="member: 95657">In about 1983, we stopped at a restaurant in Pueblo, Colorado. I was sitting next to the window and I looked out to see an albatross gliding over the grassing area that ran beside I-25, right next to the Rocky Mountains, in the middle of the continent. I thought, at first, it was a small airplane starting to land. The only thing I can think of is that, since it was late fall, it was cutting across the continent, heading south or that it had escaped from somewhere.My wife came home one day to find 2 men wrestling an Emu out in the street.I was walking under some tree branches out in the woods when, suddenly, something jumped out of the tree and hit me on top of the shoulder, hard, and then took off running. It was a smart-ass Roadrunner. Nearly scared me to death.:CWhen I was about 10, I was sitting at a pond here in central Oklahoma, fishing, when a Purple Gallinule walked right up to me and sat down beside me. It was an Alice in Wonderland moment. That was the most purple bird I have ever seen in my life. Beautiful.</blockquote>