There’s A Rooster Living In My Neighbourhood
I heard the rooster crow as I walked back from my morning workout. It was 9:30 am.
I can’t see the rooster or the coup from my building or the sidewalk. His home is likely somewhere below my apartment building, on a side street, I have yet to explore. I plan to walk over and introduce myself to the owners one day. And ask to see the rooster.
I thought roosters did their crowing exclusively at dawn. I looked it up and found out I was wrong. It seems that ANYTIME is a good time for a rooster to crow. If you want to know more, as I did, check out this piece that explains it all.
If you hear a rooster crow, it means that everything is fine; he’s telling the hens that ‘all is clear,’ there is no danger. He’s telling his community that they are safe; there are no predators in sight.
This newfound information may not seem mind-blowing to you. Maybe you knew. Perhaps you don’t care. I don’t think I would have cared if you asked me a year ago while living in a big city, far from a rooster. But now, I do.
I have come to appreciate the rooster’s crow in my new neighbourhood. Or should I say his neighbourhood — he was here before I arrived.
I’d like to believe that when he crows, he’s also telling me that I am safe; there’s no danger in sight.
Of course, I feel safe living in Makarska. And I do not NEED a rooster to tell me that all is right with the world, with my world. But knowing a rooster has my back would be pretty darn cool.
It’s the little things.
