Thursday 2 January 2020

Feliz Año Nuevo!

It started out as a cloudy day with a few raindrops.




The Century plants continue to grow.






This morning we saw the Rufous Hummingbird.  These little guys winter in Mexico.











The Rufous is very similar to the Allen's Hummingbird.  The one difference is that the most Allen's have a bronze-green back while Rufous have mostly a copper back.


The outer tail feathers are broad and the fourth tail feather from the outside has a notched tip in the Rufous.



I'm thinking notched so Rufous.

 Then the deluge started around 10:00 a.m.!  At 1:00 p.m. it is 22C with a 100% humidity.  You can breath humid green vegetation.  Heavy rain is supposed to continue until tomorrow morning











I am trying to take these videos from under our lowered canopy out of the driving rain so forgive the angles.   The Magnificent Frigate birds and Brown Pelicans were having a heyday.





2 comments:

Amy and Rick said...

Happy New Year! So is the torrential rain common for this time of year? Or is it more of an Oct-Nov thing? More signs of climate change or just a winter storm?
List are being made and routes are being planned!

Cam said...

The rain's not out of the ordinary, every winter we get rain two or three times, although, this session was more vigorous than most.