Birdie of Mississippi

  O ne of my favorite rooms in my house is my kitchen.   Not only is it the place where the food is – yummy… it’s also the place where I can sit and stare out my kitchen window to watch nature unfold in my back yard.   Today is September 15 th and there is so much activity in my backyard that it has me excitedly moving my eyes from ground to mid-air to air high above.   I haven’t been in the kitchen more than ten minutes and I have already watched a Blue Jay, a Brown Thrasher, a Robin, a Tufted Titmouse, a male Northern Cardinal and a Tennessee Warbler take joyful splashy baths in my birdbaths.   There are three American Robins waiting rather impatiently for their turns to bathe.   Mourning doves are stepping lightly on the ground routing around for dropped seeds from the feeders and juicy bugs crawling in the dirt.   Tiny Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are zipping right in front of me in pairs battling over who will get to sip on the brand new sugar water in the feeder, while other Humme