Small Creatures and Critters!

I put up a new bird feeder today,

and wondered who my first guests would be...

I was expecting this guy...
You can tell he's been flourishing on my sunflower seeds,
can't you?!!

And this guy has been hanging around quite a bit.

I certainly didn't think it would be this one...
What do you think it is?
At first I thought it was an owl,
but after I looked closer I thought it might be
a red shouldered hawk...

But I wouldn't have guessed my first guest would be a mockingbird!

I couldn't help  but wonder if he was one of the juveniles that had hung out

on my back deck this past summer and that I had featured on a previous blogpost.

(If you'd like to see it, click on the highlighted letters to take you to that post.)

Well, I haven't painted a ROCK lately,

so I guess I ought to work on that.

Maybe I'll get one done today!

It sounds like more fun than going through years of accumulated "treasures",

trying to decide what to keep, what to throw away,

and what to donate!

You can check it out at Rock4Today, okay?

Thanks for your visit!

Trip to the Lake

It gave me great joy when my husband went to the lake with me today.

Although we were looking for eagles,



...we were delighted to watch this large bird
and get a few shots of it...

 

...as he sailed to his perch overlooking the lake.



Is it an immature bald eagle?

Or do you think it's a hawk?

I'm not sure...

It looks a little like some of the captured birds

that I featured on "Wild Things",

but it doesn't really match any of them.

It didn't seem to perfectly match any in my bird identification book, either...

(Click on any of the pictures above to enlarge them.)



 

So, anyway, I got to wondering, are hawks mentioned in the Bible?

If so, what does it say about them?

 

I found three references in the NIV Bible,

but only one in the New Living Translation.

"Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar and spread its wings toward the south?"

This is from Job 39:26 where God is answering Job's complaints.

 

God's answer actually begins in chapter 38 of the book of Job,

and He never really tells Job why he had to suffer so much.

To me it seems that what He does

is to show Job that He is Sovereign.

As the Sovereign ruler of the universe,

and as our Maker,

He knows what is best for us,

and He doesn't have to explain Himself or His actions.

I think if we have a grasp on how much He loves us,

we can trust Him no matter what.

 

 

Click here to see "The Lover of My Soul" post

on my companion blog featuring the Names of God on Rocks!