Tag: Birds

Ornithology and the sense of awe

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If someone would tell me thirteen years ago, I’m going to love bird watching, I’d say they are crazy, and bird watching is boring.

Well, things changed, when I moved to Edinburgh I started meditating in one place, that had lots of birds: ducks, geese, swans. One day birds became like pets or friends, maybe even like family members.

At some point swans started to recognise me they would come over and sit with me. So, day by day, swans became my meditation companions.

I saved few of their swan babies when they got stuck in the rocks. Sometimes I would bring food to swans. So, time passed and I started liking all birds.

I had this hawk living above my bedroom window and it visited me, nearly every day.

On my daily walks I would notice different birds each bird evokes this sense of awe, especially if it is rare bird like kingfisher.

Each bird has it’s own personality, individuality. Birds are very intelligent, maybe even more intelligent than cats and dogs.

Once I saw pictures of kingfisher on the internet, I really wanted to see that bird in a wild. So, first time I saw it I didn’t realise it was so small and the colour is so bright, blue electric, and it moves so, fast. People offten miss it because it’s fast and small. Kingfisher it’s magical bird, it seems it came from some other dimension maybe fairyland.

So, it happens I seen many times, birds knocking on the windows they are like little messengers and part of synchronicity. Messenger send from higher worlds.

I sit in a park, while I write this post, surrounded by variety of birds, of course. This pigeon, is sitting on a bench with me and it becomes my friend, for a wee while.

Birds make different sounds sometimes it seems nice, sometimes annoying, sometimes soothing. And I have two live alarm clocks that knock on my window every morning, when the sun rises. So, I go to bed when sun sets and rise with sun rises, just like birds. Birds watch after my wellbeing, little feathered guards.

Serious Seagullhood Cornwall

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Of course seagulls live by the sea and all of these Seaside places. Seagulls are very adaptable scavenger birds. Many years ago they never lived in Lithuania although few years ago they moved in and live happily ever after in Lithuanian towns. Even in my hometown Kaunas which is Not by the sea, they live. Species relocation big time.

Cornwall is known as British California, of course seagulls are very present there because the sea is everywhere.

Seagulls gained a pet status in Cornwall or maybe human friend, cohabitatant. Seagulls and humans share same ecosystem, well you would expect seagull eat seafood in the sea, yes they do that, although they eat a lot of human food from bins. Seagulls are savages you should see what they do to the bins, and the rubbish gets everywhere. People feed birds as well. Sometimes you look at them and think seagulls expect you to feed them.

Seagulls learned act really cute and soft, like cats and dogs. They know if they act cute they might be fed. Seagulls have zero fear of humans in Cornwall.

Some towns in Cornwall perfect breeding ground for Seagulls, houses that have flat roof tops, perfect for baby seagulls. It’s baby time now, you can see one in a photo above.

I have my own personal seagull who visits me everyday, he is perfect alarm clock 5 am he is at my window, knocking. What a wee darling. Then he come over many times a day just to knock on a window.

I named him Gena, he looks like a wee dinosaur to me, fluffy dinosaur.

Gena was a cartoon character from Soviet cartoon, he was crocodile. Well, crocodiles sort of like dinosaurs and birds are like fluffy dinosaurs, hence name Gena.

Gena is handsome gentleman he brings me gifts everyday, like sticks, straw and one day I got wee green plastic bag from Gena.

I think Gena try to make a nest, maybe he thinks he found a wife.

I had quite few peculiar stories about birds in Cornwall, and that is the stories for next time.

Life and Death

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Life and death cycle…it is a process of nature. On this planet for a long time there was imbalance between life and death cycle, well, you can perfectly see this in current medical system and pharmaceutical industry, these industries in many cases don’t let beings live nor let them die, it keeps biological body in limbo not alive, nor dead, like a zombie. This state causes a lot of pain and suffering which is food for demon beings.

Demonic beings like to incarcerate living beings just to feed of their energy that includes plant, animal and human life. So what do you think slaughter houses and horrible farms are for?Well, basically just harvest suffering energy…Why do you think people now live in such a horrible houses that are like cardboard boxes, basically blocks of flats look like chicken coops? The ugly environment, trashy art, unhealthy life style creates perfect space for demonic beings and of course hell for other beings.

Humans are so far away from nature and natural life and death process. Separation from nature causes a lot of pain and suffering…The solution for the situations is, spend as much time in nature as you can be present, aware and grateful for the nature because that is your source of life, you are it, you are nature. Nature can teach you so many things,when you go to meet nature be respectful behave with it like with your friend, because you are part of nature, just be with it, be nature. Get to know nature. Where do you think ancient masters use to draw their knowledge from?

‘As above so below’ getting to know micro and macro cosmos…

Watching light particles playing in the air they are all different…even the smallest particles of nature are unique.

Human beings want to go to the same plastic surgeon to look the same…Why? Sameness seems like incarceration… a lot of human beings like to just ‘copy paste’ reality…this is like a scene from some horror or dystopia movie, tragic and comical…Did you see movies ‘Escape from L.A.’ and ‘Idiocracy’ ? The movies were quite prophetic, especially the scene from the movie Idiocracy when people watch movie and in the movie they just show someones ass for 90 minutes and it seems funny to everyone, and it even won Oscars. Have you noticed that mainstream media is that ass scene from the movie? That is why a lot of peoples attention span is maybe 3 seconds and all they can do just ‘copy paste’ crap reality. Main stream media totally kills creativity and human potential.It makes human stupid and zombie like.

Want to be wise spend time in nature. Nature teaches so many things and organic process of life and death. Maybe after spending time in nature you will loose your fears of living and fear of dying.

People understand dying as death of physical body, but it could be a death of your old lifestyle, death of habits, death of old you…Death can teach you how to be detached, how to let go and how to live life fully , because tomorrow might not come…Even scientist can tell you tomorrow doesn’t exist.There is only now.

I have been observing birds for quite few years and they are so detached, totally live in the moment. I am grateful for the bird wisdom, they are such a great masters.

Life and death cycle on the beach…the beach that stretches few miles there are so many life forms from most simple life forms as molluscs to complex life forms as whales. There is this part of beach where you can step on the rocks, the rocky part of the beach, rocks are the home of variate of plant and mollusc life, you can feel and hear how plants and molluscs breath and live, they have created their reality which seems magical like scenes form the movie ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’. Molluscs are perfect food for the birds, there are so many variety of birds, so many colours,sizes…When birds pick out molluscs from their shells, empty shells lie on the sand, some of them look like colourful easter eggs, some of them look like broken blue porcelain crockery.Shells turn into colourful sand after some time…life and death cycle, from living breathing being turning into sand ‘Ashes to ashes, dust to dust’. Death to mollusc, food for bird. It is sad that beings have to eat other being just to live…well maybe one day this will change.

There were quite few dead bodies of birds lying on the beach don’t know weather they have died from natural causes or ate rubbish that humans leave behind…so many humans are so disrespectful to life, they are so careless about their own life and other beings lives…human irresponsibility and disrespect causes so much unnecessary pain and suffering…

What causes pain and suffering? Separation from nature and consumerist life which is so unnatural for human beings. The solution, reconnect with nature, with mother earth be grateful and stop consumerist lifestyle. Yeah, shopping is not going to solve your problems. Other peoples approvals not going to make you happy it is just going to make you approval junkie.

© Laura Ciciskinaite