Bluebird Update and The Goose Armada

 Good Tuesday Morning Everyone!  Here's a few happy pictures to help us get started with our day. 

I believe our baby bluebirds must have hatched, because Mama and Papa Bluebird have both been busy coming and going to the nest in the birdhouse, taking turns bringing tasty bugs to feed the babies!

Here's Mama on the housetop, watching for possible intruders.  Between the two of them, they are both very vigilant to stand guard and be ready to fend off any other birds or "creatures" who might disturb their babies:

When she thinks it is safe to go in, she looks inside and checks on the babies, and sometimes she goes inside for a second or two and comes right back out, and other times she stays right there at the "window" and drops the food in:

Meanwhile, Papa Bluebird is keeping watch from a nearby tree:

Then Mama Bluebird comes back outside and flies to a perch to stand guard (and look squarely at me as if to warn me to stay away from her babies!)

And then she looks back at her house to make sure all is well there...

While Papa Bluebird flies to the window and drops in the tasty bugs that he caught for the babies to eat:

Again, he is very careful to look around and make sure all is well:

I think he's on to me...

After both parents have dropped off their offerings for the babies to eat, they fly to the nearby holly tree to reconnoiter and plan their next move.

After chit-chatting for a few moments, they fly away to other places in the yard where they know the good bugs are.

Meanwhile, there's another interesting show going on out on Still Waters Pond:

(Well, actually this might have been the afternoon before, when the sun was so bright it was hard to see what was going on out there)

Do YOU see the "armada" of goose ships lined up just off shore?

They were making their way in, closer and closer, silently paddling by in hopes no one would notice them

Suddenly they caught sight of me standing up on the shore, and they began to send signals and make their clucking goose sounds toward each other

As they stayed in formation, the lead goose began to honk more loudly and you could see them pivot their heads toward the pond instead of the shore:

As the honking became more emphatic, they each began swimming out further into the water, picking up speed as they called to one another:

And it would seem as though on the count of three they all lifted up their mighty wings and prepared for "lift-off":

And off they flew "into the wild-blue wonder, flying high into the sky"!  

I could hear them honking all the way up and around the pond and off to another lake just beyond the horizon.  But they'll be back later. It's all a part of their daily routine. Never a dull moment out there on "Still Waters Pond".  Me thinks the "waters" aren't really all that "still" after all! LOL.

So what else is going on? Hmmm, well, let's see. Nothing much. I went to our Ladies' Bible Study yesterday afternoon. I had mentioned in an earlier post that we are studying the Book of Proverbs.

Someone had asked me what we were using to study the Proverbs, so I thought I would share this information with all of you in case you are interested in a new study guide for your group:

Although this says it is a "6-Session Bible Study...", I believe we will be taking much longer than that with our group.  When you get 15 or more ladies together for an hour, well, you can imagine that it takes longer to get through one lesson than what the writers of this study guide ever considered...

I think we are all realizing that there is a lot more to the book of Proverbs than just a lot of pithy sayings and sometimes funny ways of saying things.  Proverbs is full of Godly wisdom and instruction for living.  And like Proverbs 1:7 says, "fools despise wisdom and instruction." A wise person pays attention to what God is teaching us through His Word, The Bible.

Well, I guess it's time to get this day started. I hope wherever you are you are having a beautifully blessed day.  And if you want to do a little interesting Bible Study to start your day, pick up the book of Proverbs and start reading. You might be surprised at what you will learn!