THIS IS FOR THE BIRDS!

Spring sports are cancelled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic began surging in the US just as the high schools were doing their scrimmages for the season. I was three days away from getting to photograph the XFL professional football game at Audi field. Then everything went crazy as the number of cases surged. The high schools postponed the start of their season. The XFL and Major League Soccer postponed their games. All were hopeful that the pandemic would wane. But that never happened. Eventually all sports went on hiatus and we were all put on lockdown and told to stay home to reduce the spread of the virus. Here we are months later and places are starting to reopen and teams are about to start playing again but to empty stands. More than 100,000 of our people have died so far and more will pass before it is all over. In the grand scheme of things, not having sports to photograph is nothing. Still, the itch to take photos is strong. Fortunately, there are plenty of birds to shoot. Well, with a camera that is! My Mother's feeders and our gazebo attract a lot of different birds. The disruption of the pandemic is for the birds, and so is this post!