12/10/2026
🪶🦅Whistling Kites🦅🪶
Birds are incredibly markers of time.
Their song was woven into the landscape long before human arrival.
In the early Cretaceous period, approximately 125 million years ago, birds were dreamed into being.
The land was vastly different, the super continent Gondwana, blowing it's untameable winds.
Birds scanning the fertile earth for any stone they could sing their song into.
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The Whistling Kite, Haliastur sphenurus, like all birds, are literally creatures of habit.
As dawn separates the stars and tree tops, the Whistling Kite calls across the land to mark it's territory and to signal the hunt.
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Just a couple of weeks ago, I witnessed a Whistling Kite swoop a young Maggie up and carried it off into the wheat crop.
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Ruthless, skillful birds they are also known as
"Fire Hawks" like other related Kites & Falcons.
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With a deep relationship to fire, these resourceful birds know how to be with fire.
They will pick up burning twigs from grass fires, and strategically drop the stick in unburned grassed areas to start new fires. Flushing out prey, they then come in for the taking.
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Sitting with the bioregional relationship to Kaurna Country, along the Yarralinka, they teach us of the moving seasons, about adaptability and how to be with what we are presented with at the time.
Gathering all of the necessary information and then acting from a place of deep internal truth.
They ask us to be with the wisdom of the land and to sit as the forever student.
In humble silence and then knowing when to act with the grace of a warrior.
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Fire. The symbol of transformation, the conduit for change.
May the call of the Whistling Kite, ignite the flame of the warrior.
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With Nature
Carmen x
