Think Like A Bird?

I have had a subscription to Birds and Blooms magazine for a number of years now and if you are not familiar with that magazine, it features many letters and photos from readers and their backyard birding experiences. Sometimes those stories are about rare sightings of birds far from their normal ranges and sometimes the stories are of rescues but the stories I want to talk about today are the ones that share unusual places that birds may choose to nest.

A number of readers have shared about birds building nests in the pockets of clothes hanging on a clothesline to dry; some are about birds building in flower pots and too many other places to mention but the one thing all of those chosen nesting sites have in common is that the birds built those nests in expectation. Not a single bird feared that the site chosen was not viable because they saw the site as opportunity so they didn’t take any time to think fearful thoughts.

And guess what? There were in fact, some nests that were destroyed, nests it had taken much time and effort for the birds to build. And what did they do when their nests were destroyed? Did they give up and never build another nest? Never! Some built in the exact same spot and some moved to a new location but they did not quit just because it didn’t work out for them the first time. Why is that? Because they were determined to do what nature intended and that is to move forward in life, just the same as it is for all of us.