Birdie of Mississippi

MI CASA ES SU CASA By: Peggy Williams aka “Birdie of Mississippi” Watching birds come to your yard to begin a home is a very exciting event both for you and for the bird.   Birds are much like us when we search for a new home. They want to find a place where they feel secure, have their needs met and find peace and happiness. If a bird finds these things then they decide to build a nest and live there.   Some birds are seasonal and come for a short while and then move on.   They leave for either cooler or warmer weather or even just to go to eat some of their favorite foods!   So if families of birds come to live in your yard they look to you to help them and provide for them.   They need trees and shrubbery for homes and also for protection from predators.   They also require bugs, delicious flowers that have sweet nectar, nutritious food in bird feeders and fresh water to drink and have a bath. Many birds come in the spring and stay if conditions are right for

PB & J By Peggy Williams             One day last week I filled little bowls for the birds to enjoy.  Two bowls were crunchy peanut butter and two bowls were grape jelly!  There are a number of birds that enjoy peanut butter – woodpeckers, wrens, chickadees…and those that love grape jelly – Baltimore orioles, tanagers and even hummingbirds!  So, I was excited to see what might come one spring morning.  The table that I put the bowls on is right outside a picture window in my kitchen that looks out over my backyard!  I sit in my “Mimi” rocking chair having my morning coffee and watch as the birds come to eat their breakfast.             As I watched on Sunday morning I noticed a squirrel putting his front paws in a little bowl of water and lick his paws - then repeat over and over.  I laughed and thought how funny he looked!  Then I looked at the table with the PB & J and there was another squirrel reaching into the peanut butter with his paws and putting it to his mo

Birds, of course, have been flying and living around me all my life.   I studied basic knowledge of birds in elementary school and I was taught the name of our State Bird – the “Mockingbird”, but I’m not certain that I would have known what it was if I actually saw one! But I could recognize local birds that live in the South such as robins, cardinals and a few more, but it didn’t extend too far past that.   I have always been a very “busy” and “task oriented” person, but last spring things changed. During my early morning quiet time with God I read a Scripture “Stand still and consider the wondrous works of God.” Job 37:14.   In reading this I realized that I regularly fail to appreciate sunrises and sunsets, spring flowers in bloom, and yes “birds” because I don’t venture outside to register these happenings!   I have never been an outdoor person because I dislike heat, getting sweaty, bugs and getting bitten!   All, of course, happens to every person that lives in  Mississippi.