Well Fred, I really enjoyed reading your post it was so uplifting and
refreshing. I also love nature and God’s creation.
On May 4, 2020, at 10:50 AM, Fred Olver <fredolver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Every day I get up between five and six in the morning. Well I should say most
days yesterday I didn’t get up until after seven. It was a quiet Sunday
morning. My street used to be quite busy, but what with the stay at home
restrictions we are having here in St. Louis, it has become somewhat of a quiet
street with busy times between 2 and 5 PM and maybe in the mornings depending
on the day.
When I get up I feed my dog let her out in the backyard and then when she comes
back in we go for a walk. It is her happy time of the day. She’s so looks
forward to her walk. It’s almost amazing. She comes in and bounces around the
house as if to say well are you going to take me for my walk??? So I put on her
leash stick my cane in my pocket and off we go.
Yesterday on our walk, it was a beautiful morning with temperatures near 60
already. It has been a very nice spring here in St. Louis, this morning for
example the temperatures are in the 50s and we are supposed to get rain later,
but it has not been a hot spring which is usually the case. St. Louis is almost
unbearable in the summer, sometimes I think the trees are actually sweating
because it gets so hot during the day.
A couple years ago, when I was living in an apartment, I would swear that the
pine trees were sweating because of the smell of this app during the hot summer
evenings. The locusts down here are almost deafening at times. They are I think
probably bigger than the ones in Michigan and there are more of them. Similar
to the ones you might find in Florida or Georgia or South Carolina. I digress.
Anyway, yesterday on our walk, I always listen to the birds. I love to hear the
birds. They wake early sometimes around 2:30 in the morning as I have said
before Robin‘s first then Cardinals then the sparrows. So we were walking down
the street and I was just enjoying the quiet and I heard this Robin or robins
in a tree ahead of me so I slow down.
As I listened to the bird/birds, not sure if there was one or two at first it
sounded like one of them was learning how to sing the Robbins song. Robins have
a very distinct song, once you hear it you will remember it and enjoy it, they
especially enjoy singing after a good rain. Anyway I was listening to this
bird/birds sing one to another and then I walked up to the tree and stopped and
remained quiet. My dog stood there looking around and I was enjoying the birds
singing. In a couple of minutes I continued my walk for another 50 feet or so
and decided it was time to return home for my coffee. I turned around and came
back to the tree at this point there was only one Robin in the tree and so I
stopped and listened again. I don’t believe the Robin could have been more than
about 18 inches from my nose. That’s how close I was to it and I’m not sure
that the bird even knew that I was there because it was so busy singing and
enjoying the day. It continue to sing for another coupl
e of minutes, and as I’m standing there, I’m thinking geez this would make a
nice picture or perhaps a video, a Robin singing in a tree I thought about it
for a moment and decided that if I moved one way or another to get my phone out
and take a picture or video that the Robyn would sense my presence and fly
away. I must have been right, because as I turned to go to Robin flew from the
tree thus ending the sequence of events which I will probably remember for the
rest of my life. It was just a fun moment and a very enjoyable experience. I
enjoy nature so much all the different birds, And when I’m in the woods I am
especially listening to hear animals in the underbrush etc. Thanks for allowing
me to share, have a great day Fred Olver
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