Cheers all for contributing. Just found this pic and just had to share....

Synchronicity indeed
Only yesterday I was researching a particular animal that has been invading my dreams of late.

Also, about 18 months ago I experienced a couple of weeks/months of ... well, I'll just call it a paranormal or supernatural experience which coincided with the local population of all types of blackbirds around my home increasing by dozens and dozens. They were everywhere. On my back verandah, in my trees and telegraph poles. Everywhere I looked they were there. There were a few that would let me walk right up to them too.

The experience was so strong that I had to
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"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth."
- Walt Whitman