Life on the Fast Lane
Life is not exactly all peachy for the birds in the wild. They have to contend with many adverse factors such as:
- Weather: Heavy rain, hail, gust winds, high temperature, low temperature.
- Predators: Hawks, cats, raccons, snakes, humans.
- Health: Parasites, mites, viruses, poisoning.
As you can see those are some of the factors that have serious impact in a bird’s life. Also, we have the daily procuring their daily nourishment for themselves and their families. If you observe their behavior, you can see clearly that every bird, large or small has to deal in an aggressive way in order to get the food that it needs.
Every bird has a clever strategy for getting their daily needs, at the end of the day all birds end up eating, non are falling to the ground for lack of nourishment and if they fall might be because are to heavy to fly! ๐ I brought you a gallery of unusual photographs of daily bird life.
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Text and photographs ยฉ H.J. Ruiz – Avian 101











Wow, best ever. Such action, beautiful shots of the birds in flight. -amy
Thank you Amy, you’re very kind! ๐
All cool — especially the titmouse dive!
Yes, I love that one too! Thanks Scott! ๐
I love your shots of birds in flight. Not an easy thing to capture! ๐
I’ve been using the Tv mode (Shutter Priority) lately trying to get some action.
Thanks for your comment Derrick! ๐
Great action shots.
Thanks Tom, I began to follow your steps. I’m wondering if I should start bicycling too! ๐
Of course you should.
Great action shots, HJ!
Thank you Donna, in fact I’m experimenting to inject some action to my photos and break the monotony. My backyard visitors are usually well behaved but you have some instances that resemble Hollywood’s Beverly Hills! ๐