Rock Pigeons

Rock Pigeons are extremely abundant in all the USA. These birds have adapted to all different habitats and weather conditions. They can easily survive the hottest or the coldest weather temperatures, feed themselves with any available kind of food. They are excellent flyers and proliferous breeders.

The following pictures were shot in Tybee Island. These pigeons compete with the Boat-tailed Grackles for scraps of food and small fish.

Photographs © H.J. Ruiz – Avian 101

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Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Herons are one of my favorite birds for photography, they make good subjects, one good reason for that is that they usually move slowly and it’s definitely easier to have a good photo session.

Their size and elegant posture are plus qualities also.

I have two photographs I picked from my files for today where you can verify my observations.

Great Blue Heron fighting current in river rapids!

Panoramic photo of Great Blue Heron next rapid river waters!

Photographs © H.J. Ruiz – Avian 101

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Swans

There are many creatures in the world that are beautiful, colorful and graceful. Swans are on top of the list.

I remember when I was of young age seeing a swan swimming around at a pond. In my young mind this bird appeared to be a beautiful toy, it impressed my eyes as being too beautiful to be real. Later in life I still get the same impression when I see one.

I can humbly pretend to understand why Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Peter I. Tchaikovsky) musical compositions make reference to swans. I assume that perhaps he too was inspired by the grace of the swan which he transformed to write such exquisite ballet music.

Here are three species of Swans:

Mute Swan

Black Swan

Black-necked Swan

 Text and photographs are © H.J. Ruiz -Avian 101

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Photo Files and more…

Lucy is at home with a bout of what seems to be flu, I have time to continue looking at my photo files. Since we’re not going out I an sit and pick some photos to post on the blog.

It’s amazing how quickly any photographer can amass a tremendous amount of photos. This reminded me of a couple of articles I read years ago.

The first one was that National Geographic magazine sent a staff photographer on assignment to Africa, they needed approximately 5 photographs I believe it was, the subject were elephants of certain area in Africa, he shot over 10,000 slides but they published only 5 (five)! This blew my mind!

The second, also years ago when I used to develop my own photographs in my darkroom. A famous B&W photographer (I do not want to use his name) passed away and a curator for his estate was named since his art was very valuable. In his home they found among many many photo prints and an a vast archive of negatives, and boxes containing close to 5000 (five thousand) rolls of film that remained undeveloped! Wow! Can you believe that?

Here are some other picks from my files:

Northern Cardinal (M)

House Finch (M)

Common Grackle (M)

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

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