Originally posted by Celtic_
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I'm pretty much legally and professionally obliged to do so.
Do you have access to a garden?
I ask because as patronising as it sounds, they can be fantastic places to start from. And just having that immediate area of nature at hand is such an improvement to our lives.
We're very excited this year because we have a family of slow-worms living in our green house, newts and frogs breeding in our tiny plastic pond, and a hedgehog lurking around too.
Combine that with our various bug hotels and bee friendly wildlife patches. It's awesome.
Just by proximity we effect nature, the slow-worms are perhaps the most tolerant of our presence, they'll often come out and investigate when we're watering the tomato plants and fruit bushes in the green house.
Angry looking lizards that they are.
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Back to the topic of birds..
Ones I know of with obvious pagan ties:
Swans,doves,cranes/herons, crows/ravens/rooks, magpies,Robins,Eagles, Storks,Owls.
When you start to introduce Christianity to Europe, most birds with red on them get tied to the crucifixion, black birds become evil or fallen (many were considered white before hand) etc.
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Perhaps the Dove has the most enduring spiritual association as a bird of hope,goodwill and as a psychopomp.
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