Bird Blast
June 16
Approximately 45 years ago, my girlfriend made me watch Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds with her. As I child, while with my grandmother, we had been attacked by a blue jay after my grandmother tried to show me the baby birds in a nest. The mother bird flew into my grandmother's hair and pooped on her shoe. I can see the exact spot where we were standing to this day!
As a responsible adult, I've tried to overcome this fear for the sake of my children and grandchildren, but it's been a rough week bird wise!
My husband and I were dealing with only one house key, so we had left it in a planter by the front door for one another for several weeks. Returning home Friday night, I found the key on the top step right in front of our door mat. For the life of me I couldn't imagine why my husband would have left the key right there and it wasn't a spot where he would have dropped it out of the planter. That morning, I had noticed a nest in the planter in the very spot we leave the key, but I had forgotten to tell my husband. Finally, I deduced that the bird had moved the key off her nest. A friend pointed out to me the kindness of the bird…she could have flown off anywhere with that key chain!
A few days later I went out to the hammock to read my Bible. As soon as I laid back a bird flew to the hammock and landed 12 inches from me. I was so startled that I gasped and she flew to a limb above me. I thought for sure she was going to peek my eyes out, like in the movie. Will I ever be able to relax in that hammock again?
Laughing over these episodes with some friends following a Bible Study dinner, one friend suggested I take the leftover bread outside and "feed the birds!"
I'm getting paranoid now. I just realized we had to cut down a huge pin oak that same week. Maybe it was home to some of them and they are retaliating.
Approximately 45 years ago, my girlfriend made me watch Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds with her. As I child, while with my grandmother, we had been attacked by a blue jay after my grandmother tried to show me the baby birds in a nest. The mother bird flew into my grandmother's hair and pooped on her shoe. I can see the exact spot where we were standing to this day!
As a responsible adult, I've tried to overcome this fear for the sake of my children and grandchildren, but it's been a rough week bird wise!
My husband and I were dealing with only one house key, so we had left it in a planter by the front door for one another for several weeks. Returning home Friday night, I found the key on the top step right in front of our door mat. For the life of me I couldn't imagine why my husband would have left the key right there and it wasn't a spot where he would have dropped it out of the planter. That morning, I had noticed a nest in the planter in the very spot we leave the key, but I had forgotten to tell my husband. Finally, I deduced that the bird had moved the key off her nest. A friend pointed out to me the kindness of the bird…she could have flown off anywhere with that key chain!
A few days later I went out to the hammock to read my Bible. As soon as I laid back a bird flew to the hammock and landed 12 inches from me. I was so startled that I gasped and she flew to a limb above me. I thought for sure she was going to peek my eyes out, like in the movie. Will I ever be able to relax in that hammock again?
Laughing over these episodes with some friends following a Bible Study dinner, one friend suggested I take the leftover bread outside and "feed the birds!"
I'm getting paranoid now. I just realized we had to cut down a huge pin oak that same week. Maybe it was home to some of them and they are retaliating.
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10
