Dillard writes a mystical account of a real encounter with a goldfinch. Briefly describe what she wrote.

Dillard's brief encounter with the goldfinch demonstrates her mixing of the scientific with the mystical. She writes an objective account of the goldfinch's activities with the thistledown, but then she merges with the consciousness of the goldfinch in experiences flight to its eyes. Many readers might believe Dillard to be delusional when she writes about the weightlessness of flight. So, it may be easier to think of Dillard as an imagining what flight is like, rather then actually experiencing flight through the consciousness of the goldfinch. There are a number of times in the book that Dillard seems to describe an experience as if she has become part of the animal, insect or plant that she is describing.