A family of bitterns
Thank you for reading my blog. I hope this day is a good one for you.
We have a bird in the North Georgia mountains that lives in the marshy areas where the cattails grow. Not many people have seen one, even though it stands nearly two feet high, and when it flies its wings spread out a little more than a yard stick. It is called a Bittern, and it can teach us a lot about being flexible.
By that I mean that many times we have choices to make, and we need to be ready to make the choice that best fits the circumstances. I'll use the Bittern as an example.
Let's say she is sitting on her nest when she spies a red fox close by who is looking for supper. She has three choices. She can attack the fox and use her sharp beak to harm the fox so it will run away. But to fight a fox like that will probably get her hurt. She can bristle her feathers up so she looks twice her size, but while that may scare away a snake, itprobably isn't big enough to scare a fox. Or she can stand up on her hind legs, with her beak pointed straight up into the air, and her neck stretched way up and look all the world like the cattails and reeds surrounding her. If the reeds sway in the wind, she has learned to sway with them. This is the best choice to hide from a fox and will work almost all of the time. The fox just won't see her.
Sometimes our best choice is to just stand in the cattails where we won't be noticed, rather than making a lot of noise, which could get us hurt.
Keep your chin up
Robert P. Rabbit