Archive for the 'Birds' Category



One Good Thing

Published on September 25, 2007

I was sitting on the deck one morning this past week and heard the thrumming of hummingbirds. I tilted my head back to see a ruby and emerald pair hovering in the air above me, come for one of the feeders hanging from the eaves of the house. (I had heard years ago that if […]


Vultures and Praying for Charlotte

Published on August 30, 2007

As I write this first entry of the Animal Messenger Sanctuary blog, I’m looking out my office window at the vultures circling the ravine in front of me and landing on their resting perch there. The sanctuary is high on a hill, so the vultures seen circling overhead from down in the valley are at […]