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September just a few miles out of Belgrave
And the gray shrike thrush pipes on a blackwood tree
I climb the high paddock that skirts the woodland
Alone with Nature my old dog and me.

I feel a deep love for this grand old country
From the high ground such splendid scenery
A pleasant day with sporadic spells of sunshine
The better things in life are always free.

The rufous whistler whistling in the woodland
Pipe much the...

Francis Duggan

so far, this week this is what i have had land in my yard
These are just some of the birds that were in my yard this week.
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong.



I think the grey bird singing...

godzirra

The pigeons from the rooftop watch as she shuffles by
And they recognize their food source and down towards her they fly
On the grass margins by the pavement the pigeons mill around
As she opens her paper bag full of grain and spreads it around.

Between two and three P.M. seven days a week in weather wet or fine
She brings with her a small bag of grain in hail, rain or sunshine
And around two o clock on the rooftops the pigeons congregate
...

Francis Duggan

They mostly like to hide from watcher eye
But today around the thicket verge they fly
And utter forth their squeaky warning cry
The white browed scrub wrens have their young nearby.

The scrub wrens worry for their family
Two little babes at least or maybe three
In grass nest cloaked by leaves on grass near ground
In scrub with heavy thicket all around.

Peace little birds you have no need to fear
Your babes in nest I will...

Francis Duggan

From dawn to dark they pipe the same, same song
Sounds very much like curra currawong
Day in day out their music still the same
And humans call them currawong by name.

With feathers mostly black they look much like a crow
But they are different very different though
As they've got white tips on their wings and on their tails
And yellow eyes a yellow shade of pale.

Some people call pied currawong a pest
And to rid Australia...

Francis Duggan