Hi Dan and Linda

What I find so interesting about our experience with the hawk at the car yard is that when we went to look at the car, at the time Mark was buying a new car in the US.... when we swapped pictures of the cars we were buying they were almost identical.  Mark's car is red ours is pearl whíte, but I almost bought a red one.....I would have preferred a red car but in the Australían sun red fades fast. It was almost as if the hawk was there telling me that Mark was buying a car too....  Everytime I see a hawk...and that is often while driving.... I too think of Mark. They are so graceful gliding on the wind currents....  Not to mention beautiful looking birds....so sleek.

Dan, I saw my first Cardinal in Tennessee in 2003 and I fell in love with them.....they are magnificent. I didn't see any Blue Jays...  We are bird lovers too.... The other week a family of Magpies came up to me while I was watering....there were about a dozen of them.  They hopped all around me.....  I called out to Shaman to bring out some bread for them.  They are so tame... they had a good feed and left.  I have bird baths front and back to make sure they have water.  
I saw a crow doing something strange a few weeks back.... it was sitting on the bird bath just staring at its own reflection..... its feathers were all ruffled up and it appeared lost in thought.  I was just watching it and it was almost magical to watch.  Then another bird flew over and scared it half to death because it was so "not here".... I don't know where its mind was......

Of all the birds I saw in the U.S there is one I wish we had here and that is the Hummingbird..... I sooo love them, they melt my heart.  The closest thing we have to them here in Australia is finches.
Where I líve we have so many parrots..... and they are little blighters.  They cóme under my patio and eat the flowers in my hanging baskets...and they eat the buds off my roses.  :shock:

[quote]They're here year round. Luckily my cats are too old and lazy to hunt anymore. Well unless a blind mouse were to walk in front of them.

Rofl  :lol:  Too funny Dan....

One day a family of magpies landed in the back garden.... my tiny little female cat singled one out and was hunting it...(mind you magpies are quite big birds)...  anyway she was hunting it and the other magpies saw her and came running across the back garden and surrounded her..... she ran for her life terrified...    I was just about to run out and rescue her.... they would have pecked her eyes out.

Eagles mean Intelligence, Renewal and Courage. That is the message the eagle was sending you Linda.

Hawks although a messenger, in the Druid book means Nobility, Recollection and Cleansing.

Owls mean Detachment, Wisdom and Change.

Hey and I just looked at what my avatar Swan means..... Soul, Love and Beauty. Well I never....! I hadn't looked at that before. I use to always go by the nickname WhíteSwan.

Pen