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Golden whistler and other wonderful birds

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Subject: Golden whistler and other wonderful birds
From: "Barbara Preston" <>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:51:19 +1000
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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