That’s funny. Road runner was what popped into my head. I thought that was just a latent memory of cartoons that popped up when you mentioned a running bird.
I thought that too. I had to search to look at roadrunner, and chaparral to find which it may be. I’m not sure if I had my glasses on when I saw him either. The markings were similar to the RR that I linked, but other pictures were not. I could not find anything online to indicate RR’s being in SE Texas. If they are nesting in that debris pile, we will be seeing them again.