Musk Lorikeets (1 Viewer)

Hard to see amongst the green gum tree leaves though they chirp on with a passion
As if chirping amongst their kind is going out of fashion
Small green birds with red faces they can fly as fast as a swallow
Their food source the nectar of the blossoms of the flowering gums they are obliged to follow.

Musk Lorikeet is their common name they live a nomadic existence
Their elusiveness and speed of flight is their inbuilt predator resistance
They follow on the flowering gums in family flocks together
The small parrots referred to by some as the birds of warmer weather.

Last week on the flowering gum in the backyard all day long they were noising
The blossoms to their taste buds must be so appetizing
But now that the gum of blooms is bare the sounds of Nature lighter
The lorikeets gone to elsewhere and without them the garden quieter.

Nomadic birds are what they are this small species of lory
Not famed as some other parrots are in verse or song or story
So elusive and hard to see they fly as fast as the swallow
To one place they do not belong the flowering gums they follow.