Let me start off saying I almost always have my camera with me. Occasionally I forget it and hope nothing happens that I need it for. Guess what I forgot this weekend? *sobs*
I looked out at the bird on my mother in law's back deck and wondered why it was sitting on the deck and not eating. Concerned it was harmed since it looked puffed out, which isn't a good sign as a rule. I opened the back door, which usually makes them fly away. This bird stayed right there.
I got closer to it. Didn't move.
Closer yet. Closer and closer until I could reach out to it.
Still didn't move.
I put my hand out to it and it sat on my hand pretty as ever. She even sang a bit in my hand and wiped her beak on my hand. I called for them to get Gideon out to see her and he was amazed.
I called him over and told him to hold both hands out and I'll see if she'd sit in his hand. Sure enough she did. He was equally as amazed and delighted as I was.
We petted her gently and saw her feathers were soft.
And watched her on the deck.
I'm still kicking myself for forgetting the camera. I can't get good bird shots with it so the chances I get are few and far between and can't be afforded to miss.
She seemed to be fine, and she did fly off after a while. Maybe she just wanted to visit with us a bit? :-)
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I work a lot with symbols, as they are shown in dreams, visions/meditations, and in nature (when something out of the ordinary happens). One of my favorite reference books is Animal-Speak, The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small, by Ted Andrews. I thought you might be interested in some of these excerpts on what he writes about the Goldfinch.
"The goldfinch is named for its summer costume of shiny yellow feathers on its body. It also has black wings and a black cap on its head. This color combination is very symbolic.
Black and yellow are the colors of the archangel Auriel. These colors in meditation and ritual are used to invoke that aspect of this being that oversees the activity of nature spirits---the fairies, elves, and devas. The high point of activity of nature is during the summer, its highest point being at the solstice itself.
The presence of goldfinches usually indicates an awakening to the activities of those beings that are normally relegated to the realm of fiction. Goldfinch can help you to deepen your perceptions so that you can begin to see and experience the activities of the nature spirits yourself. This deepening of perceptions is reflected in the black cap---awakening to that which is normally hidden from view.
................It is through endurance and persistence that we can open to the Realm of the Faerie once more. Goldfinches are birds that can help us connect with those nature spirits that can show us how to heal animals---wild and domestic.
The goldfinch also has an undulating (an up and down movement) flight pattern. This rhythm and pattern can be used in visualization to help loosen the subtle energies of the aura and facilitate leaving the body. The wave pattern also reflects the ability of a goldfinch to lead us to the inner and to the outer realms, from the human to the Faerie, from the physical to the spiritual."
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rejoice in the gift...I love it when the wild life here allows me to help when needed....it has been our job from the very begining of time....
Our finches are beginning to turn yellow.