The storyline of the dream was otherwise unsettling, and too personal, to share here. However, I can relate the part where birds made their appearance...
I had just come to a stop at a "T" intersection, in a car, and was about to take a left to exit a neighborhood onto a main thoroughfare. With all of the suddenness only they have, a flock of twelve or so birds all but rained down on the road directly in front of the car. My heart lept into my throat... I was beginning to curse the winged beasts when starkly spangled napes caught my attention. Spotted Doves?!? Dreambirding lifers!
The setting of the dream was Austin, Texas. So, I mused about whether these obvious escapees would have a chance at establishing themselves, what with the Eurasian Collared-Dove having arrived so recently.
Spotted Dove (Streptopelia chinensis)
Image online here
No sooner had these thoughts crossed my mind when a large, and loud, pickup truck sped by; directly through, and partly over, the dove flock. Several members went "remige over teakettle" in the truck's turbulent wake. All seemed physically unharmed, but many hundred a feather were crazily out of place.
It was then that a single bird, among those whose feathers were woefully ruffled, caught my eye. Not a dove, and harder to explain as an escapee, the new bird was another dreambirding first for me: Eurasian Jay. Huzzah!
Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
Image online here
The avian section of the dream ended with my eyes following those birds, who'd been so rudely inconvenienced, as they seemingly self-consciously ambled into yards across the intersection. There they began the unglamorous process of making their plumage proper again.
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He is cute
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