Dr. James J. S. Johnson

Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their return; but My people know not the judgment of the LORD. (Jeremiah 8:7)

The Bible mentions migratory birds – for examples, storks, turtledoves, cranes, and swallows are mentioned as faithfully migratory birds in Jeremiah 8:7.  (See JJSJ’s “A Lesson from the Stork”, at http://www.icr.org/article/lesson-from-stork .)

Avian migrations are truly a wonderful recurrence in God’s phenological providences. 

With that in mind, I observed a flock of Canada geese (Branta canadensis) in my neighborhood, not far from my mailbox—they were grazing among the grasses by my rain-runoff drainage ditch. 

But not long afterwards they were off again, in the air, southbound, toward wherever they go for winter.  Today’s limerick follows.

OBSERVING 18 CANADA GEESE: MIGRATORY STOPOVER VISITORS

A migrant flock came by today

The flock intact, none gone astray;

Slowly grazing geese,

Dawdling and obese;

Then they returned to their flyway.

(JJSJ, November 4^th A.D.2024, near Flower Mound, Texas.)