I live in Oklahoma and we have had drought summers the past few years, which is hard on the birds. If you live in an area that is also experiencing low rainfall, please remember to keep fresh water outside for the birds.. Of course a bird bath is best, because it keeps cats out, and is perfect for the birds to bathe in or just perch on the edge. But any type of glass or plastic basin which the birds can perch on is better than nothing, and preferably placed on something that keeps it off the ground. -- don't use metal, it gets too hot. Just keep a few inches of water in so they can bathe too, and remember to refresh it daily. I have one in a little garden outside my courtyard and I love to look out my window and see them drinking and playing in it. We have to make up for where nature is failing right now. Another thing, if you eat oranges, string the peels and make a sort of "orange peel mobile" and hang in a tree where the birds can nibble on them. Lots of birds love orange peel and get a lot of nutrition from. Also, plant annual flowers if possible, they product lots of seeds which the birds love, even preferring of course to the bagged seed you can buy in store.

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"Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey Him." Luke 8:25

I have plans to leave plenty of water for them, particularly around mid November.

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JMS gets another English lesson:

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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.

The result:

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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.

Cute

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"Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey Him." Luke 8:25

Not too many birds in my backyard.. the alligators ate them.

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