Kinda weird topic but I have had bird stories lately.

A month ago I was walking next to the Sanctuary at Saddleback Church and a little Humming Bird fell out of the sky right in front of me! I looked up and realized he had probably hit the glass and was knocked silly!

I wasn’t sure what to do but decided to have someone watch him for a minute and grabbed 2 church bulletins. I had heard you shouldn’t touch them so I used one bulletin to push him over on the other to get him out of the walkway.

Slowly I walked him over to a planter area and just as I started to bend down to place him on the ground, he got his other wing out from underneath him and slowly started flapping his wings until he flew off the bulletins and flew to the wall. He just hung there for a few minutes and then flew off! It was a pretty odd and kinda cool touch with nature.

I reflected on my new bird video I had just released on YouTube and thought – that was cool!!

Well, is happened again Thursday night at Simply Fondue – my Thursday gig. I was playing near a few windows and all of a sudden I heard a bash on the window that really startled me. It sounded like someone had thrown a hard ball at the window! It took me a minute to realize a bird had flown into the window and was lying on the ground outside.

I went out and we was not really moving but his beak and eyes where moving some. I went inside and got the manager and a couple came out to see. As I looked at him I saw the life leave his little body. It was strange. I kind of thought he would just get up and fly away like the Humming Bird did.

I have no idea if he was older but knew he was a lot bigger and he hit really hard. I realized he was probably the same bird I saw eating off the ground a few minutes earlier when I was playing. I saw a bird just outside the window and thought – cool!

It kinda made me sad the rest the night. It was weird.

I then got an email later that night with a series of pictures of a bird hit by a car and another bird – assumed its mate – trying to help. It was a sad story of loss and the other bird seemed to cry out over the loss. The pictures were moving, in and of themselves, but a little weird after seeing that poor bird die earlier that same day.

So Sunday I was at Saddleback on an outdoor bench behind the Sanctuary and I noticed a shadow on the wall in front of me. I looked up and directly above my head, about 4 feet up was a humming bird hovering over me. It was almost a full minute before he took off. It was totally beautiful to see a Humming Bird for that long and so close!

With all the bird stuff going on I have to wonder if that was the Humming Bird I saved earlier. I’m sure it sounds weird but I feel like the bird encounters have been very strange and pretty frequent! It seems like they are everywhere these days……

The Bible says God knows when even 1 sparrow falls, and if He cares for the flowers in the field and the birds of the air, How much more does He care about you! Totally has me thinking about that.......