Garden Tales
by
Gypsy Joy.
Early this morning while I watched the dark clouds in the sky and the garden flowers gently swaying back and forth, a couple of felines lazily crossed our garden. As I watched them brushing against the leaves of a shrub where on the happy day of July 22, 2013, the arrival of the third crown prince of the U.K., I had found the remains of a long black tailed bird. I wondered whether they knew or felt instinctively that a creature lay buried there.
We had just experienced a tornado storm in our area that day, damage to our gardens was minor. Compared by other areas in our city I considered us very lucky but I felt heartbroken finding one of God’s departed creatures.
On the weekend I had missed the company of a black bird I had grown fond of as it had been flying in and out of our tall emerald evergreen feasting on insects. Day after day the bird seemed to be coming and going all day long. Flying away too quick for taking a picture.
After having stopped to admire a Dutch Lily and some other plants and shrubs I went back to the task of cleaning some more debris in the gardens when I found “my” black bird. Unfortunately the sweet black bird had not survived the tornado. I was too shocked to take a picture for identification and gave the bird a quick burial. I tried to identify the bird by checking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starling
The bird I had grown so fond of had a white long thin bill. Glossy black feathers from top to tail. Its wings in flight showed a gleaming black, white and catchy rust colour. The latter shiny like mahogony. The span of the wings seemed large in flight but when the bird was sitting on the evergreen branch catching insects it looked like a small black bird with a large black tail and long thin white bill. My believe that the bird may have been a starling comes from a few dark blue eggshells and a fallen nest I found a while ago on the earth below our tall emerald evergreen tree.
Perhaps an Avian friend can tell me more about it.
May the sweet bird have found a little heavenly angel.
