{"id":4811,"date":"2018-09-16T13:54:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T20:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2018-09-16T13:54:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T20:54:58","slug":"yellow-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=4811","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"A friend asked me to re-tell her my story about the yellow signs<\/a> because she wanted to touch upon that during a sermon she was giving this weekend.  I’ve told the “you are not alone” <\/a> story many times and wrote about it in fictional terms in my first novel In The Lila<\/a>.  <\/p>\n
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No small wonder then, today as I sat with my streetwise sage by the pond he built for me in our new home … We saw a yellow bird come to visit the sanctuary.  There are couple things you should know to fully grasp the wonder (statistical significance) of the moment.<\/div>\n
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I’ve had a backyard water garden or pond of some sort or another for more than 15 years. 
\nAnd I’ve been an avid back yard birder for longer and I know my fair feathered friends fairly well.<\/div>\n
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It was a small bird … I would have said definitively a gold Finch<\/a> but in truth it seemed slightly bigger.  Though perhaps not as big as an oriel.  Regardless … Gold finches have never been pond curious<\/em>.  And in the year we’ve been here we haven’t seen a one.<\/div>\n
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There was also a little black headed Phoebe checking out the ripples on the spillway, from her perch atop a copper light fixture.  And a bright orange dragonfly who was persistent in her attempts to shoo the birds away.<\/div>\n
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But this yellow bird kept trying to put his feet in the water.  He would fly from the magnolia tree to the Olive tree to the new jujube tree <\/a>still in it’s pot.  It dared to dip down onto the wheelbarrow then onto the rocks that bordered the cascading spillway.<\/div>\n
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On one fly by the little bird did touch it’s beak into the water as if to scoop up a mosquito fish before darting away into the branches of an evergreen near by.<\/div>\n
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Gold finches don’t eat fish and neither do orioles.  Could be it was just getting a taste of the water.  Though another thought came to mine.   <\/p>\n

I turned to my husband and said … “Maybe it’s a parakeet.”<\/em>
\n“Could be”<\/em>, he answered in the slow southern drawl.<\/div>\n

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Truth is … That yellow bird, the first we have ever seen at our pond, not quite looking like any previous visitor to our home, behaving differently than most birds do … statistically significantly so \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

Sure, it could have been a parakeet …
\nbut it was most certainly a Paraclete<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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