Comments on: Renewable Energy Growing Faster than Conventional Energy http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/05/renewable-energy-growing-faster-than-conventional-energy/ Nourishment and inspiration for those who love the Earth Fri, 18 May 2012 23:00:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Joan Brundage http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/05/renewable-energy-growing-faster-than-conventional-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-896 Joan Brundage Wed, 27 May 2009 17:30:22 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=899#comment-896 April, Thanks so much for printing my wild bird experience. It's truly something all of us can do! Last weekend was such a nature weekend for me! On Monday, Alan and I heard some terrified birds screaming and turned the corner in a garden to witness a Gopher snake wending its way up a Palo Verde tree into a White Winged Dove nest to eat 2 baby doves. The mother dove just watched this from further out on the branch. Birds are naturally terrified of snakes. It was heart wrenching to see. Afterwards, the mother dove flew back to the nest and just stood there, folding and unfolding her wings as she looked in the empty nest for her babies. I know she was grieving. She hung around the nest for quite a while and was still there when Alan and I moved on. This will probably be her only chicks for the year as White Winged Doves usually only hatch 2 chicks per year. I know that the snake had to eat, too, and this is part of nature's balancing act. Still, it's hard to observe. Your readers would probably have a hard time with this---but I wanted to share this with you. I understand that this is quite common this time of year. April,
Thanks so much for printing my wild bird experience. It’s truly something all of us can do!

Last weekend was such a nature weekend for me! On Monday, Alan and I heard some terrified birds screaming and turned the corner in a garden to witness a Gopher snake wending its way up a Palo Verde tree into a White Winged Dove nest to eat 2 baby doves. The mother dove just watched this from further out on the branch. Birds are naturally terrified of snakes. It was heart wrenching to see. Afterwards, the mother dove flew back to the nest and just stood there, folding and unfolding her wings as she looked in the empty nest for her babies. I know she was grieving. She hung around the nest for quite a while and was still there when Alan and I moved on. This will probably be her only chicks for the year as White Winged Doves usually only hatch 2 chicks per year. I know that the snake had to eat, too, and this is part of nature’s balancing act. Still, it’s hard to observe.

Your readers would probably have a hard time with this—but I wanted to share this with you. I understand that this is quite common this time of year.

]]> By: Joan Brundage http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/05/renewable-energy-growing-faster-than-conventional-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-894 Joan Brundage Tue, 26 May 2009 19:25:17 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=899#comment-894 April, I had a sacred experience with a bird on Sunday. Alan, my husband and I were driving up a road near my house when I noticed a movement in the middle of the road. We drove back and I ran out in the road to find a beautiful injured male Gila Woodpecker lying in the road. I picked him up in my hands and we brought him home in a car as cool as the AC would go. Initially his beak was wide open with his tongue sticking way out---he was struggling with heat stroke and birdfashion, trying to cool off. Birds don't perspire like us except through their beaks. We got a medicine dropper and got him to drink hummingbird water dribbled on his beak. Then he calmed down and closed his beak. One eye appeared to have a pebble in it. We took him to a wild animal rehab unit in Tucson where a volunteer first rinsed his eye out with saline solution which dislodged the pebble. I was amazed by his beauty and trust. He never once tried to peck me or escape from my hands. I think the Reiki energy flowing in my hands helped to soothe him as well as my telling him that he was safe and should rest which he did in my hands all the way to the rehab center. To hold a bird in one's hands like that is truly a sacred experience! This bird will recuperate and then be released back to the desert where he can live out his life. April,
I had a sacred experience with a bird on Sunday. Alan, my husband and I were driving up a road near my house when I noticed a movement in the middle of the road. We drove back and I ran out in the road to find a beautiful injured male Gila Woodpecker lying in the road. I picked him up in my hands and we brought him home in a car as cool as the AC would go. Initially his beak was wide open with his tongue sticking way out—he was struggling with heat stroke and birdfashion, trying to cool off. Birds don’t perspire like us except through their beaks. We got a medicine dropper and got him to drink hummingbird water dribbled on his beak. Then he calmed down and closed his beak. One eye appeared to have a pebble in it. We took him to a wild animal rehab unit in Tucson where a volunteer first rinsed his eye out with saline solution which dislodged the pebble. I was amazed by his beauty and trust. He never once tried to peck me or escape from my hands. I think the Reiki energy flowing in my hands helped to soothe him as well as my telling him that he was safe and should rest which he did in my hands all the way to the rehab center. To hold a bird in one’s hands like that is truly a sacred experience! This bird will recuperate and then be released back to the desert where he can live out his life.

]]> By: Joan Brundage http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/05/renewable-energy-growing-faster-than-conventional-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-893 Joan Brundage Tue, 26 May 2009 19:16:12 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=899#comment-893 This is good news that I am very happy to know about. Thanks, April! Joan This is good news that I am very happy to know about. Thanks, April!
Joan

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