I don't understand this particular feather, for a whole lot of reasons. It seems posed, neatly woven between two of the wire strands that make up our deck fencing - but how, exactly, did it get there? And to whom does it belong? If we were in England, I'd say, obviously, a magpie. But although there are Yellow-Billed Magpies in SoCal (I've just checked), I've never seen one here. Maybe one of the woodpeckers? But when I go to a website called "identify my feather", the most likely candidate seems to be a black-legged kittiwake, which aren't seen abundance out back. Or, just maybe, a bald eagle (and indeed, that seems a bit more plausible, though not very - although something definitely caught and ate and left the remains of a baby possum out there fairly recently). However, today, I can't extricate any allegorical meaning.
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