Thers currently at hot discussion going on in another thread about guns and such. It caused me to recall a most wonderful experience I would like to both understand and share.

These days there are no guns for me but I am still an archer. Target and club competion only. Plaquette level bronze with one unbeaten club record and perfect scores in 30 40 yards shoots ( once each ) recurve. anyway the story.

I am a member of a field club where targets are set in bush settings at various distances and heights. Often I would go there set up some targets and practise and prefer to go alone. This day I was set up for 30 yards and was about to shoot six arrows when a Kookaburra landed on a tree branch not three metres from where I was standing. You can't help but admire such a beautiful iconic bird,it just stayed there the whole time as I shot my arrows. I walked to the target to collect the arrows and that bird flew down after me,landed on the ground again very close by. I walked back to my mark and that bird once gain flew to the tree close by,not more than three metres away.

Three times he and I did that. Eighteen arrows and maybe twenty minutes of time. Each time from the nearby tree to the same spot on the ground He flew. I left the field bewildered and in awe of that bird. It was a beautiful experience one that stays with me.

I am sure he had a message for me. He may of thought dinner time!!! I don't know but I don't think it was that at all.

Any thoughts? 

Ralph

chicken strangler

I will subscribe to the theory that he was waiting to get leftovers from your "kill".  Too many people think that Animals and Birds are not that smart.  I know they can be.

EG.  I once raised an Owl, who had been blown out of it's nest.   Part of it's diet, was chopped up Heart.   One day, I noticed that the heart was appearing on the floor of the cage, and not being eaten.   I hid and watched what happened the next day, only to discover that the Owl was using the Heart meat, to lure  Lizards and Mice to eat.

Cheers,

Sheba.