(ours have white backs unlike the northern or western version. Pic taken in the Exhibition Gardens in Melbourne.)
Magpie Dad carols a little, making up for the ugliness of his kids' whining.
There's rainbow lorikeets winging past, screaming their apparent joy to the world. They stop and sit in a tree and start squabbling. (Pic taken at Tooronga station.)
A couple of wattlebirds are disputing territory. Some little whitter birds are whittering. There's gum trees (Eucalypts), sheoaks (Casuarina), wattle trees, hibiscuits (hibiscus) and melaleucas outside the window. I ignore the houses and the sound of traffic from the local major roads. They are peripheral.
My goodness, the sounds make me homesick for the place where I am!
