There Gone!

On Friday my family and I went out of town to see a play with my dad's parents! When we arrived home last night I could barely wait to check on the birds, so I jumped out of the car, ran through to garage and into the house to get the flash light. I went back out into the garage and climbed up to see them! I couldn't wait to see how much they had grown! I peeped in and saw... NOTHING! They were gone! No sign of them anywhere! We don't know what happened to them.

My whole family is quite glum. I am so thankful now that I have pictures of them! All we can say is the Lord knows best. We don't always understand what His plans are but we know that they all work for good! Thank you Lord for those sweet little days we got to enjoy with them!

In Christ,

~Mac

Update on Our Baby Wrens!

Yesterday the last of the Carolina Wren eggs hatched! We still don't have a Cowbird baby. Here are a few pictures I snatched of them while the mother was out! (They don't really like the flash so I have to do them quickly or in segments)

They're having a wonderful nap!

"Hello There!"

"Oh are you taking a picture of me!"

Isn't this picture cute?

God really knows how to make my day! I am still working on getting one with their mouths open!

In Christ,

~Mac

Babies!

Last year a family of Carolina Wrens built their nest in our garage and had two babies! We left the nest because it was on a wreath and it looked pretty and now we are paying for that decision because we have Carolina Wrens in our garage again, which my mother did not want to happen (too much stress). This year instead of two eggs we have FIVE one of which was a little larger than the others and was blue not white with red spots! I thought that it was a little strange that she would lay a different looking egg so I researched it! It was not a Carolina Wren it was a Brown Headed Cowbird egg! It seems that Brown Headed Cowbirds come and infest other birds nests! I then learned that there was a 31percent chance that the wren babies might not make it because the Cowbird has a shorter incubation period than the wrens, so by the time the wrens hatched the Cowbird would be a lot bigger and would suffocate the Wrens! We then had to decide whether or not we were going to let the Cowbird egg live. We decided to leave it in God's hands and see what He decides to do! This morning two of the five babies hatched! They were both wren babies! I learned a lot more about Cowbirds and Wrens when I researched it but I will leave it to you to find out more if you are interested!

Here are some pictures of them I took!

This is the momma wren from last year! Wasn't she nice to pose for me!

This is their sweet humble abode!

Here they are! The egg in front is the Cowbird egg and the other egg that you can barely see is the Wren egg!

I will try to get some more pictures soon but the Mother likes to be with her children so it is hard to take them! Also the location of the nest makes it rather difficult to take a picture.

I think they are just adorable!

~Psalm 148~

¹ Praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD from the heavens,
praise him in the heights above.

² Praise him, all his angels,
praise him, all his heavenly hosts.

³ Praise him, sun and moon,
praise him, all you shining stars.

⁴ Praise him, you highest heavens
and you waters above the skies.

⁵ Let them praise the name of the LORD,
for he commanded and they were created.

⁶ He set them in place for ever and ever;
he gave a decree that will never pass away.

⁷ Praise the LORD from the earth,
you great sea creatures and all ocean depths,

⁸ lightning and hail, snow and clouds,
stormy winds that do his bidding,

⁹ you mountains and all hills,
fruit trees and all cedars,

¹⁰ wild animals and all cattle,
small creatures and flying birds,

¹¹ kings of the earth and all nations,
you princes and all rulers on earth,

¹² young men and maidens,
old men and children.

¹³ Let them praise the name of the LORD,
for his name alone is exalted;
his splendor is above the earth and the heavens.

¹⁴ He has raised up for his people a horn,
the praise of all his saints,
of Israel, the people close to his heart.
Praise the LORD.

Don't we serve an awesome Creator!

In Christ,

~Mac

In my last post I shared a lot of pictures that I had taken! I am not going to share all of them with you now, but I would like to share some of the pictures I have edited!

I am going to post the original first, then the edited one.

The bees acted a little disturbed when I was taking pictures of them! =D

I love editing pictures! I could have made the bee a different color but that would have been a little odd!

I hope ya'll have a great day.

In Christ,

~Mac

Spring is here!

Here are some pictures that I took on four different days, with two different cameras!

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This is a picture that I took out of our dining room window of our female squirrel! Isn't she cute!

This is a picture I took out the kitchen window of a little, red-bellied wood pecker that comes to our bird feeder.
I hope you liked all of the pictures! I know there is a lot but hey I couldn't decide which rose picture was the best! =D I did narrow it down for ya'lls sake though! I originally took around 300 pictures! I will hopefully be posting some pictures of a yellow rose, that I just got, soon!

In Christ,

~Mac

P.S. I made a poll on the side so ya'll can vote on which picture is your favourite or you can leave a comment!