Friday, February 20, 2015

Snug Retreat

Spring is here again; its 8th year in a row...right next to the same old chime hanging on my porch at the top right corner. The mother bird has been busy building her nest for the last couple of days.Its amazing to see how hard she has been working. She has been patiently making multiple trips, carrying only a speck of each item in her tiny beak every time. In an attempt to build her nest, mud, Sticks, twigs, pine needles, dirt, tan barks, grass and dry leaves have been gathering at the corner. In the beginning when she starts building her nest, there is more stuff lying on the ground. In the end, she figures it and slowly yet steadily she would have her nest ready to welcome the li'l tweeters into her family.
Soon, One day the eggs would hatch, and the mother bird will be busy finding food and feeding her babies. At last she would decide they are big enough to learn to fly. She would fly around the nest and show her babies how it is done. Soon all the little birds fly away and in a few days, the empty nest will magically disappear! And the story repeats itself the next spring..This is what we have been seeing for the past few years!

I am awestruck by her patience as she is forced to build her own nest, twig by twig. Makes me wonder about our own lives.. Reaching our own goals in life does not happen overnight. As long as we keep going , twig by twig, just like the mother bird, it is assured that we are making progress towards our goal, and of course teach our li'l ones to be independent! Nature is indeed, the best teacher ever!!!