I get heaps of messages from the birds in my garden.
A little fantail was flipping and squeaking round and round my sons car yesterday morning. According to local Maori, if a fantail flies into the house, it signified death or the end of something. This little bird was making such a fuss. I remember thinking, 'I hope nothing happens to my sons car.'
He went out to pick up his girlfriend a little later and I was s'posed to visit a friend but kept stalling. An hour later I got a text from him saying his car had died on the motorway off ramp and could I pick him up.
I rescued a baby fantail that had fallen out of a tree in the garden last year. I'd watched the mum teaching her babies to fly and this little one was too fat for his wings. Everytime he jumped and flapped, he dropped down a branch and couldn't get back up. The mother was buzzing around it very distressed, so i got a cloth and lifted him back up the tree, with his mum flitting round my head & bollocking him all the way.
Whenever they're in the garden, they'll fly up to the kitchen window and squeak out to me, hovering just under the eaves.
Lallymac
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