BLESSINGS IN OUR GARDEN

In February 2010, we noticed a lovely grey bird, whom I affectionately named 'ABBY', busily gathering little twigs in our Allamanda Flower canopy for a few days; there was an aura of great anticipation and excited chirping from curious birds investigating the rustling noises among the leaves. Lo and behold, 'ABBY' had built a nest and we knew new life was going to happen, again, in our garden. Taking a quick peek into her nest one day when she flew off for food, we were delighted to see 3 little eggs and a few days later, Tania was prancing around that spot excitedly alerting us to the little chirping emanating from the nest ... It was a Happy Day .... New Life - - Blessings in our garden :) !


Observing 'ABBY' during her tenure in our garden was a moving experience. She protected her babies with great fortitude, braving the blazing sun and heavy rains we get during that time of the year .... even the occasional lightning and thunder didn't faze her. Watching her from inside the house whilst it rained, I felt so helpless, but then, I guess being a mother of the feathered kind, that's what comes naturally to them. This is what birds do, everywhere, every minute, and to observe it within "t.v." distance was awesome !!

If you look closely at the pix above, you will see the soft, fluffy yellow feathers of 'ABBY's babies. I shot this pix early in the morning when the rain had stopped. When her nestlings were a little older, we saw her teach them life skills with great pride, to fly, search for food, and it was awesome watching them soaring out of the nest and back in again.

It was a bitter-sweet day for us, when we found the nest empty, and we felt kinda lonely as it was so quiet up there.


I still hadn't identified 'ABBY's species yet, and thanks to Curious Gardener, who has many visitors of the 'feathered' kind to their garden (look under BIRDS Category), we're quite sure it is the Pink Necked Green Pigeon :)

Strangely, two years prior ABBY's short stay in our garden, during the same month in 2008, a similar bird (whom I named 'SOPHIE' - okay ... I'm a nut) and her mate, built their nest in exactly the same spot in the Allamanda canopy, and they had two little babies.

And now, these past few days we've been hearing familiar chirping and some activity in the Allamanda canopy ! Is 'she' or one of them back to start a family ?? ... well, it looks like Miss Tania has the same thing on her mind ... heee ... she's so cute when she's curious .....

Well, there's a saying that "things happen in three's" ..... keeping my fingers crossed :)