Free, free, free at last - to open and close our front door without fear of baby birds or their parents entering the house! Woohoo!!!! Free from having to direct visitors to enter through our dirty garage and cluttered laundry room! We have been front-door-less for about a month now, and it feels good to have it back. Yes, our baby birds are all grown up and flew the coop a couple of days ago, exactly 2 weeks from the day they hatched. From best we can tell, 4 out of 5 survived their stay dangling on our front door wreath, a stay that included a pretty nasty storm one night - I was convinced we would have a front porch full of baby birds to clean up before the kids woke up the morning after the storm. It was pretty amazing to see how quickly they grow - I bet their momma's heart is breaking somewhere for only having them as babies in the nest for 2 weeks. It was also interesting that they all flew away on the same day. Our kids all took their first steps at much different times (Aaron- 9 months, Caleb- 15 months, Leah- 14 months) so it was rather fascinating that God created these birds to all to be ready & able to fly away at the same time. Once they flew away and never returned, we were quick to take down the wreath (having been told it is common for them to lay more eggs) and spray off the front door from all the "evidence" that multiple birds had been living their for weeks. It has also been a bird week for us - a random roadrunner has been hanging out in our backyard (I had no idea they could climb a fence, much less get on the the very top of our neighbor's roof*), AND we had one of neighbor's chicken's get into our backyard and stuck in our one cactus plant! (NO idea chickens could climb a fence either!*). So there is your bird update for the week. Hopefully this will be the final chapter in our bird saga.
* I say climb, but my brother was quick to point out that birds FLY. We watched it happen though. I will settle for "leap." Perhaps being a bird, there was some flying support in the process, but for the most part, feet were on the ground/fence/roof!
Psalm 84:3 The Message
3-4 Birds find nooks and crannies in your house,
sparrows and swallows make nests there.
They lay their eggs and raise their young,
singing their songs in the place where we worship.
God-of-the-Angel-Armies! King! God!
How blessed they are to live and sing there!
sparrows and swallows make nests there.
They lay their eggs and raise their young,
singing their songs in the place where we worship.
God-of-the-Angel-Armies! King! God!
How blessed they are to live and sing there!