Had any bird-related dreams recently?
How come I was dreaming about a bird I’ve never seen?
Last night, I had a dream about a peculiar bird. I usually remember my dreams quite well, and this time it was also the case.
I was standing somewhere in a garden, located next to the forest that was quite similar to the one located near my childhood home — although the garden doesn’t blend into the tree line as it was in that dream.
On one of the pine trees in the first metres of the forest, I saw a woodpecker on the tree trunk. The bird wasn’t doing the headbanging the woodpeckers are famous for, but it seemed to be observing me as well and barely moving.
I had more than enough time to see that it wasn’t the woodpecker that I can see in my area, but its head was fully red. There are multiple different woodpeckers in Poland and Europe in general, but none of them has more red than just a stroke of colour on the top and the back of their head.
It was clearly a red-headed woodpecker, a bird that I have never seen in real life.
Why that bird?
The only time I saw a red-headed woodpecker when I wasn’t dreaming was on a photo included in Amethyst Qu’s article on World Migratory Bird Day. I assume that I saw it also in some nature…
