We only have to travel about 30 miles to see beautiful birds that are migrating through Southeast Texas.
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| Blackpoll, American Redstart, and Yellow Warblers |
Sabine Woods Bird Sanctuary provides the perfect place for these birds as they complete their long flight across the Gulf of Mexico. Here they can find shelter, adequate food source, and fresh water.
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| Blackpoll Warbler |
There are large oaks, willows, hackberrys, and mulberry trees that make this a welcoming place for a stop-over before heading further north to their breeding grounds.
Also, there are ponds and two bird baths chiseled from large flat rocks and set up with a water drip that the birds just love to visit.
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| Painted Bunting and Indigo Bunting |
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| Indigo Bunting |
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| Painted Bunting |
There are trails throughout the sanctuary and benches that make it the perfect place for birders to come and get to see these birds during migration season. The sanctuary is maintained by the Golden Triangle Audubon Society.
Some of my favorites!
Wood Thrush
To read some interesting facts about bird migration go here .
Some of my favorites!
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| Summer Tanager |
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| Prothonatary Warbler |
To read some interesting facts about bird migration go here .
It is just so
amazing to me to think about these little birds and how they just naturally
know when to go, where to go, and then have the navigational skills and physical ability
to travel to the same place each year!
Job 12:7-10 (NIV)
But ask the animals, and they will
teach you,
or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
or let the fish in the sea inform you.
or let the fish in the sea inform you.
Which of all these does not know
that the hand of the Lord has done this?
In his hand is the life of every creature
and the breath of all mankind.
that the hand of the Lord has done this?
In his hand is the life of every creature
and the breath of all mankind.
