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beautiful male golden whistler spent a few minutes
in the trees close to my office window a short while ago - first one I've seen
here in a few years. (within sight now are an Eastern Spinebill, several
Striated Thornbills, and several Fairy Wrens)
Something different from my family's farm, about
30k SE of Walcha (near SE edge of New England Tableland - beautiful basalt
country):
My mother's funeral last month was in the garden -
a sweep of lawn framed by large trees and shrubs, edged by an invisible haha
wall, overlooking a beauitful valley then patterned into the distance by many
dozens of golden poplars. During the service a scarlet robin came three times to
a bare-branched shrub on the edge of the haha just beyond the coffin. And as the
coffin was being carried through the garden to the burial place in the paddock
(the spot with the best view), the largest flock I've ever seen of yellow rumped
thornbills rose up from the lawn, parting the way and looking exactly as my
mother often descibed them - as golden autumn leaves, rising, not
falling. We felt my mother's spirit in the birds she
loved.
Barbara
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Phone: 61 2 6247
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