Golden Wattle Stories, Dreams, and Poems

Today I woke up to kingfisher calls and Kingston the kingfisher on the powerline out my window watching me wake up!!!! So lovely!!! I haven't got a good picture yet of him because he is so small but here is a couple blurry photos I got. 

The magical energy is strong today...Benji the butcher bird a grey butcher bird just flew into the deck railing while I was outside only 2m away from me! He stayed there for about a minute before flying off!!!   I believe Benji wanted to "visit" me. His visits to me have been rare since I moved home not far away. Maybe he was sending me a message.  A few days ago I woke up to see a butcher bird singing outside my window on the powerline but when I went closer he flew away. 

Today at a lake me & my friend Sarah saw 2 friendly butcher birds that kept hanging out near us. I did some duet bird call singing with one of them. (as I'm good at whistling bird song) A beautiful light blue dragonfly also landed on Sarah!!! As well as flying around us a few times. A butcher bird I called Samson even came and sat right next to us & caught a bug to eat. Samson once flew past me flying so close to me just to be fun. When we left Samson landed next to the car in a tree to say goodbye as I waved to him! We didn't even  feed them they were just friendly.  When we first arrived for our picnic I didn't know what the birds were hidden in the tree next to us were at first. It was just beautiful bird calls and I whistled along copying them as I just love communicating with birds. But butcher birds are so intelligent and clever they might have been hiding from me at first just trying to trick me and they have shown me they can mimic other birds.  Today I al...