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Ha! Yes, it may just be the passing of season.
I don't know the significance, but I know that in Native American (well, at least in Lakota, but others have said similar to me) Feathers are considered quite spiritually valuable. What value depends on which bird it came from. Owl feathers are bad, as owls are connected with death. Eagle and Hawk feathers are good, though, but I'm not sure in what way other than being powerful.
I have no idea at all what significance other kinds of feathers would have to them.
Personally, I also take it as depending on what kind of bird shed the feather. Unless its location is extremely dramatic, I don't read omens into feathers of really common birds. I'm surrounded by corvids, gulls, pigeons, and mourning doves - and, oddly enough, green parrots. Finding their feathers is not all that significant - "the usual birds were here" may well be a message, but it's not a message I need to take note of every day.
But I might take an unusual hawk or falcon feather as a note that I should make a point of talking with Freya soon, since those birds are Hers. A corvid feather in a significant place might prompt me to see if Odin or The Morrigan wanted my attention.
The point not being that all birds lead to gods, but that each bird has its own associations, including that they are beings in their own right. My first thought is so the relationships I already have, and I don't happen to have established relationships with any bird spirits. If I did, I'd start there.
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