H.J. Ruiz – Avian101

Our city area was hit by a heavy duty storm last Thursday night. We had plenty of lightening, thunders, strong winds and torrential rain_ fortunately, didn’t cause any damage to property. We experienced some electric power failures but was restored immediately in all cases. The worse of the storm was over in about 2 hours when the sky from being dark as night suddenly turned almost gold in color, the sun was setting and created this fantastic light in contrast with the remaining clouds. I did not take any pictures of it but I couldn’t resist going out and looking all around!

Next morning I checked my backyard, there was no damage at all, everything was soaked but in one piece. I saw a bunch of birds waiting for me to refill the feeders which only had water and not one seed. poor things!

I refilled them with fresh seeds and added a bit more because I figured the birds must be hungry… they were! They were fighting to be first to eat!

Then I said, why not shoot some pictures now even when is early and the sunlight is not so favorable at the moment?

I did shoot some photos which I’m posting now. You be the judge if they are nice or not!

Text and photographs © H.J. Ruiz – Avian 101