There's a special friendship blooming between a woman in Green Valley and a roadrunner. The two have truly been companions, for years.

"I was out here watering, and he showed up, and he kind of followed me around." explained Beth Surdut. She spends most of her days writing, painting, and sketching in her home studio. As an artist and storyteller, her natural curiosity for the world led to her first steps in connecting with the roadrunner when he first started stopping by her sliding glass door.

"So I went, 'Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo,' and I kept doing it," Beth recalled. "And he walked up to me with his head cocked, and I thought, 'Oh, this is so special.'"

Beyond the cuckoos, Beth began singing popular music to him, which "Roadie" as she started calling him, has always seemed to enjoy. Li

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