Birds that float, dive and fly are traditionally read as ease in more than one world — the emotional, the practical and the hopeful. A calm group on still water is seen as contentment; a startled one as feelings stirred up.
Has this come up in your dreams before? What was going on in your life then?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.