The two Barbets perched close to each other at day break in a Teak tree in our garden, came to my attention only because of the movement in the leaves. Their colour of the feathers so merge with the foliage that I would have normally missed them, but for the slow bird movements that caused the leaves to move.
I have recently noticed two Barbets together in our garden and occasionally visiting the feeding station. They live without a nest now! The garden is their home. I remember noticing Barbets flying out from the Teak tree after a spell of rain, which might suggest that the large broad leaves of the Teak tree offer protection to the birds in the rain!
Another hiding place for Sunbirds and Bulbuls are the thick foliage of the tall nutmeg trees.
The coconut palms are the residents for the wood peckers. The parakeets look for gaping holes in the trees and hide in them. Sometimes the holes in the trunks of trees become their nests.
When Israel invades Gaza and the American President encourages it or the Russian president receives approval from the Chinese premier and the American president for continuing to bomb Ukraine, one wonders whether they have frozen their kindred feeling towards other nations!
In this wide world that offers space for all to live, we hear the American president talking about grabbing the Greenland! The president even talked about Canada becoming another state of the United States of America !
The birds in the photographs above remind us that we use what need and allow others to do the same!
I came across a passage in the second epistle of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible that presents a road map for human behaviour:
'Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge; and in your knowledge, self control; and in your self-control, perseverance; and in your perseverance, godliness; and in your godliness, brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness, love...For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short sighted....' (2 Peter. 1: 5-9).
The above text is wisdom literature for living hospitably and mindfully!
I felt moved while reading the above passage at a time when a value based living is displaced by aggressive spirit and acquisitive attitude!
I stay pondering over this !
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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