Empty Nest Syndrome:

Doesn't this look like a lovely place to build a nest and lay eggs...start a feathered family?This is on my back porch... If I were a bird, this would be the Hilton. I'd surely build a nest here. But no...it's too obvious, after all, wouldn't a predator look here first? So why not on top of the wreath hanging on my front door? After all, we open that door 10 times a day, so WHY? I suppose because a predator bird (A Blue Jay) wouldn't think to look on the front door above a wreath...what bird in it's right mind would build a nest on a moving object that's frequented by humans? A house sparrow of course.

April 10Th; the eggs are laid; April 21st; the eggs hatch; April 29Th, a surprising 8 days later; they already have feathers; May 2ND; they are sitting on the edge of the nest, gathering the nerve to fly; I prayed they didn't; it rained that day and was so windy; they flew the nest the next day; May 3rd. Amazing! Last year, I taught a "Birds in the Bible" class to the Sparks at AWANA, and below the pictures, I posted some of the interesting stuff that I dug up then about sparrows in the Bible.

Sparrows were considered to be among the least of God's creatures. In Jesus' time, Jewish children caught these small birds, plucked them, and tied a few together to sell in the marketplace for a bit of change. Jesus referred to this practice when He used the sparrow to illustrate the love of God for the persecuted, saying, "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will...Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows" (Matt 10:28-31; see also Lk 12:4-7).
The psalmist proclaimed the luck of the sparrow and the generosity of God by writing that even the lowly sparrow was invited to make her home in the Lord's temple (Psa 84:3). However, it is unlikely that there were birds actually flitting about the temple in Jerusalem. The writer of Proverbs taught that an unjust curse could do its object no more harm than a flitting sparrow (Prov 26:2).
In ancient times, the sparrow was an attribute of Aphrodite. The long battle at Troy was forecast when nine sparrows representing nine years of war were eaten by a snake. Early Greeks and Romans kept these small birds in fancy cages much as pet lovers do today. To many ancient peoples, birds represented human souls. Early Christians sometimes decorated their tombs with pictures of sparrows escaping from cages to illustrate the Christian soul escaping the prison of this life and flying to heaven.

The image of a lone sparrow upon a roof is a representation of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane when He is emotionally abandoned by His sleeping disciples (Psa 102:7). A herald of spring, the returning sparrow is a symbol of mother goddesses, rebirth, and the Resurrection.
Since ancient times, the sparrow has had a reputation for lasciviousness. The lady or youth used to symbolize lewdness personified often carries a sparrow as she/he rides upon a lusty goat.