Currawongs Visit and Why does God Love Beetles?

Sitting at the kitchen table munching on my toast, thinking of the day ahead. The winter sun lights up the kitchen through the large windows facing out the back. Suddenly the the raucous kadung kadung of a Currawong fills the air, waking me from my morning musings. The  birds yellow eyes swing around the yard from its vantage point on the shed, he bays again and then their is another and another. Soon the whole back yard is filled with a noisy mob. They take turns in diving down to scavenge Bogie's dog food, they drink the water out of the gutter. They fall about like drunken sailors, typical Currawongs, noisy but not stylish. Then they are gone how good is that, in twenty years of living here this is the first time Currawongs have been to visit, I hope it is not the last.

It gets me thinking about the diversity of birds and life in general there are about six or seven different types of Currawongs depending where and how they live, then Magpies, Butcher Birds, Ravens and on and on its is amazing  the diversity and  prolific density of life. What was God thinking of when he made all this...?

I go out to the thinking chair to ponder this for a while...a beetle crawls across a flower stem...J. B. S Haldane the famous British naturalist once said when speaking about God:

 "He has an inordinate fondness for beetles." Indeed, the world contains over 300,000 species of beetles."



My thoughts are interrupted by Bogey time to play ball, I say.

"Later Bogey" he drops the ball at my feet.

"You know Bogey there are over 300,000 species of Beetles in the World"

Bogey wags his tail.

"I'm not gunna get any sense out of you today."

I pick up the ball, throw it listlessly towards the chook pen, the chooks squawk and jump in fright.

These descendants of dinosaurs cower in the back of the pen, Bogey retrieves the ball, lays it at my feet.

"Why did the dinosaurs go extinct Bogey?"

Bogey wags his tail, I pick the ball up...

Life is amazing...worth writing a book about.