H.J. Ruiz – Avian101

Now that I’ve been spending more time indoors due to the weather inclemency, most mornings this week we had frost and low temperatures, yesterday morning at breakfast time we were at 21◦ F, this kind of conditions calls for staying in your warm home. Unless you’re my wife that went shopping at the super sales specials last night!

Aside from these occurrences I use my free time to peruse through articles on the internet pertaining to birds, as well as through my books about birds from my personal library. I usually find myself so deeply involved in thought after I read about the origins of avians, it’s mind boggling to think that their ancestors go as far back to millions of years! Earth was still in state of major upheaval and they were evolving to what we have as birds, the existence of humans is limited to a “blink” equivalence on Earth time.

Another thing that resonates in my mind is the question: Why is it that a few million years ago, when Earth was riddled with vulcano eruptions, earthquakes, super storms, etc. etc. life continued it’s course to become the Earth that know now. However, when humans simply became industrialized for merely over a century, Scholars say now that humans are destroying the planet and rushing their studies to seek for another planet,  not to mention news that cow flatulence is great contributor to global warming?

“So little we know about Earth and how far we underestimate the power of Nature.”

Thanks for reading my… ranting?

Boat-tailed Grackle (M)

Boat-tailed Grackle (M)

Text and photographs © HJ Ruiz – Avian101