“The birds of the air nest by the waters and sing among the branches ...” Psalm 104:12
April 26, 2022 - In 1970, a professional photographer warned me that my interest in bird photography was only a passing fad. But thirty-two years later I’ve proved him wrong. Pam and I invite our avian friends often to our home and we visit them regularly at theirs.
Our favorite feeder is located about fifteen feet from my computer room window. This morning I’m watching the last bunch of goldfinches stuff on sunflower seeds in preparation for their journey north. Two Inca doves are fondly nestled together on a pecan limb directly above the feeder. The habitat of these little birds (sometimes called “Mexican doves”) has extended to San Augustine during recent years and their small flat nests can be found in the many trees of our town.
Our backyard congregation includes mourning, ground and Inca doves, chickadees, cardinals, brown thrashers, titmice, purple finches, goldfinches, brown thrashers, wrens, sapsuckers, three species of woodpeckers, jays, robins, several sparrow species, and a host of others. And we’ll soon see buntings, grosbeaks, kingbirds, flycatchers, orioles, and other biannual visitors as they return to nest in our East Texas countryside.
Our beautiful birds are just another expression of God’s creative genius. And as they rub their happiness off on us, they’re also teaching us to sing while receiving God’s blessings…
… as they so cheerfully do.
