Little Retreat at Home

Last weekend, when I was doing garden weeding at my front yard, I saw a Magpie wandering around for a while and suddenly stopped at about an arm distance in front of me and started digging out earth worms from the soil that I had just pulled out some weeds.

Amazing!

I kept on weeding, but this time I paid more attention to what it was doing. It just observed me from the same distance. Just when I was moving away, I saw it gracefully walked towards me and stopped at the patch of soil that I had just done the weeding.

How clever!

Obviously, my weeding job had saved its energy of digging food. :)

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I have a moderate-sized garden, maintainable, and with a few big tall trees at the back yard.
Birds like to stop by. The most beautiful part was when they communicate - their chirping sound can simply create harmony - giving you the serenity that you wanted so much after a long busy week. To me, that's heaven :)

The other day - a clear weekend, I saw 2 kookaburras resting at the border of my house. One was on the tree of my neighbour beside my fence, another one was standing on top of my fence closest to my glass door.

I was making coffee and interrupted by my husband for this view.

I suggested to my husband to go outside and sit closer to the one on the fence. We carried our coffee, slowly and quietly opened the glass door and sat on the steps closest to the fence. We enjoyed our hot coffee, looked how beautiful and calm the kookaburra was, and saw some birds flying in the sky, heard birds chirping on the trees and the breeze with blossoming daisies.

Oh what a retreat! :) :)