{"id":807275,"date":"2020-05-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=382977"},"modified":"2020-05-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T18:00:00","slug":"walking-our-faith-the-importance-of-naming-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/walking-our-faith-the-importance-of-naming-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Our Faith: The importance of naming things"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson<\/strong>
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Outside my window is a large green birdfeeder, which I hung two years ago. My big club chair, where I sit each morning to do my devotions, is situated across the room perfectly positioned to watch the birds come and go.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve learned a few things about the birds during this time. They don\u2019t like economy blend birdseed, they knock half of it out onto the ground where chipmunks act as a cleanup crew. On the other hand, they are great fans of the black oil sunflower seeds, and so I\u2019ve given up trying to reform them to my budget-friendly ways and purchased a 40-pound bag of sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n

For the longest time, the birds were only known to me as the little birds, the big blue bird, the red bird and the yellow bird. That was until last week, when I picked up a \u201cSibley\u2019s Backyard Birds of the Rocky Mountain States\u201d from Next Page Books & Nosh in Frisco.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a handy folded laminated pamphlet that has pictures of each bird, their name, and a sentence or two about their habits. Now, I can tell you that I have mountain chickadees, black-billed magpies, red crossbill and yellow female crossbill at my feeder. I haven\u2019t heard the distinctive hum of rufus and broad-tailed hummingbirds yet, although I will be putting out my hummingbird feeder this weekend in anticipation.<\/p>\n

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