My intrigue with wild birds continues to bring me joy. Tuesday's Truths WK 232

Yikes! It's been a week since I returned to my Tuesday's Truths series (with no post in between)! Not the best of practices for returning to this blog but all I can say is Neurofibromatosis health issues continue to interfere. GRRRRR!

But fortunately, in spite these obstacles, my intrigue with wild birds continues to bring me joy.

The other day a female cardinal who visited my rooftop garden caused me to spend quite a bit of time just watching her apparent interest with something on a pole (or near to it) that's in the northeast corner.

I took photographs of her antics and two of those images are featured atop this entry.

This scenario of the cardinal mesmerized by whatever was on the pole or near to it, along with me being enthralled by the whole scene caused me to think of the quote within the text based image seen directly below.

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In any event, and as many of you know, my fascination with female Northern cardinals has been going on for a long time and this type of creature is featured in my three volume book series, Words In Our Beak, where the stories are told from the perspective of this bird type. 

I am so blessed that in spite of receiving very disturbing news re another health situation in my mouth which is one that is quite detrimental to my health, and also receiving unpleasant (but not surprising) news from my foot surgeon that I need to continue with wearing a soft-shoe cast, as well as to use my cane until I see him again in six weeks on December 24 (Christmas Eve morning), that I still get joy from bird sightings.

One recent sighting that I witnessed was a male cardinal who was seemingly looking for a seed he had dropped (as seen in the next picture).

Upon my seeing the male cardinal pictured here in my garden where he was seemingly looking for a seed he had dropped, I thought of the parable of the lost coin as well as the parable of the lost sheep.

It was wonderful to have such a brightly colored avian visitor in my midst.