This Afternoon On The Fuel Lane

I was walking over to the Love's building and I saw a bird fly up and grab onto the grill of a Kenworth.

I thought, "What would a bird want to do that for? With all those people around?

Then I saw why. "What a grand buffet for an insect eating bird! All you can eat!"

I was walking over to the Love's building and I saw a bird fly up and grab onto the grill of a Kenworth.

I thought, "What would a bird want to do that for? With all those people around?

Then I saw why. "What a grand buffet for an insect eating bird! All you can eat!"

Hahaha! Like the free buffet in Vegas lol!

I have an intact bird's nest that I found during a morning pretrip. It was on top of the landing gear post. I picked up the trailer in New Jersey but didn't find it until West Virginia.

Last week we ran i80 and from PA to IN we had some huge grasshoppers and dragonflies exploding across the windshield and generally repainting the truck. Now I know why the birds chose our truck to hang around when we stopped on breaks! Indeed, a smorgasbord!

I've had birds do that on my truck while I was moving still, just not fast.

🐦 💘 🐝

I had a mourning dove sitting on my wiper blade while I was eating breakfast one morning. Pretty cool, but it flew off when I tried to take a pic.

I remember wondering what the birds were doing the first time I noticed that earlier this year. Birds are weird.

When I lived in Colorado Springs, I used to drive through the intersection of Austin Bluffs Blvd and Union Blvd a lot. There are bluffs on the south side of Austin Bluffs Blvd where swallows live.

Every year around Memorial Day the miller moths migrate from the eastern plains to the mountains. They stop in Colorado Springs on their way to rest, and they really like to rest underneath car hoods and the undercarriage (and in mailboxes and other cozy places).

The swallows dive down between and around the cars at that intersection because when the cars stop, the moths figure it's a good time to get up and continue their journey and the swallows have figured out that it's a feast right there in their front yard.

The first time I experienced this, I thought of the Hitchcock movie "The Birds." I couldn't figure out what the heck they were doing. They swooped and wheeled around the entire intersection as cars stopped like those motorcyclists you see in LA traffic, only cooler.

They've revised that intersection with Austin Bluffs going over Union and there's no four-way stop there any more, so I don't know if this still happens there.

TL;DR: Birds are weird.