This striking image of the young wild Indian Ring-neck parrot at the Peacock tree, shelling the pods and splitting the seeds with mouth and claws, is a wonderful reminder of their incredible dexterity and abilities through the generations of nature and nurture. Likewise, I caught this male Brown-throated Sunbird (Anthreptes malacensis) applying himself diligently to the task at hand.

We marvel and recall the wise words of Jesus in Scripture:

Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they are? Can any of you, however much you worry, add one single cubit to your span of life? And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin; yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his royal robes was clothed like one of these. Now if that is how God clothes the wild flowers growing in the field which are there today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more look after you, you who have so little faith? So do not worry; do not say, “What are we to eat? What are we to drink? What are we to wear?” It is the gentiles who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all. Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on God’s saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well. So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.‘

Matthew 6:26-34

(Lumix G85; Olympus Zuiko 75-300 mm)