The unexpected benefits of meditating

I recently was meditating outside when I saw a skink out of the corner of my eye, waddling along the porch. This is already a significant event, since skinks are very shy and will dash out of sight almost as soon as you see them usually. The fact that I was nearly motionless put the skink at ease I suppose. In any event, the skink proceeded to waddle up on to my meditation cushion and touch my knee! I almost expected it to start crawling on me, although it didn't. It then explored the porch some more, came back to touch my other knee for a few seconds and then left. Very cool. Last summer I meditated in by backyard quite a bit, where we have a couple of bird feeders. I recall one instance when I was very close to one of the feeders and so the birds were to scared to come and feed. However, when I closed my eyes for a while, I heard them on the feeder making quite a racket crunching the seeds in their beaks. Fascinating.