John and I are getting into birds! We work out of the mountains of western North Carolina during the summer months. One of our favorite pastimes, when we are at home, is to watch the birds that come to our deck which overlooks the mountains. There are ruby-throated hummingbirds (sometimes as many as sixteen of them), which come to guzzle the red-colored, sugar-water that I keep in feeders for them under the eave of the house. At another feeder, filled with sunflower seeds, we are visited by the white-breasted nuthatch, black-capped chickadee, tufted titmouse, cardinal, rufus-sided towhee, rose-breasted grosbeak, American goldfinch, purple finch, and even an occasional robin and blue jay.

We are only novices in recognizing the bird species, but God is an expert ornithologist. He is really …