The wonder of God

Cristo Rei said:

Iv seen dogs be protective and gentle with children and babies but that's unusual for a cat.

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Cristo Rei said:

I googled Indian Runner. Very tall standing standing ducks, they look funny...

Owls are unique. I've never seen one in the wild

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Cristo Rei said:

I love to wonder about God's wonder

I wasn't sure what to call this thread or where to put it.
I was going to call it "my adventures blah blah blah"
But, i don't want it to be about me, so i changed the title to the wonder of God...

One way i love to experience Gods wonder is by closely observing nature. I have a particular love for birds, they just blow me away. Their are all different sizes and colours and types of wonderful birds down here in Australia and i feel blessed to see them...

But today i was confronted by an individual bird that blew me away and inspired me to start this thread...

First i was fishing off a pontoon, watching this other sea bird dive underwater of about 30 seconds and come up, often with fish. I was catching nothing...
Then, i was approached one solitary duck...

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I think its an Australian shell duck but i always see them in large families or at least with a partner... I know a family of them very well in a little town, ive had lunch with them several times... But this handsome young male duck was all alone... With birds, its often the male duck that is strikingly beautiful, unlike with humans

And so i start talking to it... (Hey, people talk to their pets so im not all that crazy... LoL)
"Who are you? Where is your family? Where is your wife?"
He talks to me in soft little quacks and tells me his name is Barry and that he is a bachelor.
"Ah me too... two handsome young bachelors... LoL"

I went to my van... "cmon barry lets have some lunch"...
And so he follows, quaking along, telling me all about it...

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He follows me to my van and it was like God lifted the clouds to shine the sun onto Barry

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And so Barry starts strutting his stuff, staunch as can be, sticking out his massive chestnut chest and waddling around in front of me, posing for the camera... I notice small details like its tiny curly tail and the white ring around its neck but in the sunlight im captivated by its iridescent head. It changes colour from green to blue and purple as its moves in the sunlight... Its spectacular... I have no idea how this beautiful male is single

Then i sat in the back of my van and we had lunch together, just me and the bachelor Barry.

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After that he just sat beside me for a while, telling me about it all with his little quacks before returning to the river...

What a lunch, that was just awesome, i feel blessed to have had lunch with Barry today...

I wonder how cool it would be if more animals were as friendly to humans as Barry is. I imagine this is what it was like in the beginning with Adam and Eve and perhaps in heaven. Some people think there will be no animals in heaven, but i hope their will be, when the lion lies with the lamb and animals aren't afraid of one another.
Animals flee when they see us, especially birds, they take to they sky in a flash. Ducks are probably one of the most friendliest birds on earth towards humans...

How about you??? God shows us His wonder in many ways
How do u experience the wonder of God???
Share it with us

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Cristo Rei said:

Hehehehe ye I was joking but something isn't right with Barry the bachelor. They're always in groups. Always. And I see no other duck in sight. Is he lost. Has his family left him or died. I dunno. He was there again today. It's odd. Look how beautiful he is. His been pumping weights with that chest his got

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Hi Christo!
I have been following this post and loving all the stories and Barry??! he is beautiful. Our ducks look just like Barry.
Geese mate for life I know, but do not know if ducks do. The female Goose that came back to our property to have her little ones every year would wait for the male to show up. He also would show up a day or so later to protect them. Coyotes all over those hills and foresty areas. Well, one year the male did not return and it made me wonder what the female would do. He never did come back. Several of the babies got carried off by the coyotes that year as well. Very sad the animal kingdom is sometimes, it's nature, sure but I still cannot see one animal attack another, for food or not. And for the record...ALL ANIMALS WILL BE IN HEAVEN...not so sure about us though

I Love Buddy!

Backlit said:

I have a story about owls. In NZ there is an age old tradition among Maori that if you see an owl in the daytime, it ain't good. I was out hunting with a mate when a morepork, known by Maori as Ruru, a small native owl, flew down and sat on a branch a few feet in front of us, and just looked at us. My mate said, gotta go home. Something's happened.
Turned out his mum's sister had died at the time we saw that owl.

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i pet bees. ever since i was like 3 or something, out giving bees little hugs.

they're fuzzy -- you just have to be gentle.

i've found that when you respect things as living souls, they're not afraid of you, and they communicate with you - but when you think of them & treat them like they're mindless, soulless machines -- well they treat you like you're a dangerous, mindless idiot-force too, and generally get as far away form you as quickly as they can, or bite when cornered.

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Addy said:

You must be talking about the bumble bee.... the ones we have here are HUGE... and they are indeed fuzzy... honey bees... not so nice.
As for the rest of your comment... well... OK... but... NOT snakes.... I can live with EVERYTHING but snakes... there is no one on God's green earth that will EVER convince me to befriend or trust a snake... NOPE... NADA.... NOT HAPPENING.... LOL

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Addy said:

How lovely that you pet bees... that made my heart smile.

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Addy said:

In honour of the humble bumble bee.

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