On Magpie Geese

On the wetlands covered in water from the recent heavy rain The magpie geese among other water birds back in Tower Hill again By sky they do travel for many miles from places far and wide To the wetlands in the coastal countryside In coastal South West Victoria when the landscape is green On shallow lakes and wetlands birds that are sometimes seen With swans, swamp-hens, moorhens, coots, grebes and ducks the wetlands they do share Though in South Western Victoria they are known to be rare Black and white birds with half webbed feet, pink legs and bill and knob on head There are huge flocks of them up north in Kakadu it is said Of human kind magpie geese seem rather shy The nearest i have got to them is thirty meters before they did fly Birds of the wetlands and shallow lake A resonant honking the only sound they do make.