Rainbow Lorikeets

The rainbow lorikeets make their nest high up in hole in trunk of tree In old gum or wattle or blackwood maybe Or any old tall tree with a cavity To nest in hole runs in their family. It has been said in unlined nest they lay Two to three eggs of dullish white to gray And though their nests far too high to climb to for me Their eggs I have been privileged to see. The rainbow lorikeets so beautiful to view They wear the rainbow colours pink and green and blue And you hear their harsh like calling as they fly In small flocks to flowering gums nearby. In Eastern Australia these birds are not rare Where flowering gums bloom you will see them there On higher branches taking nectar from the flowers And chirping softly they spend their daylight hours. On higher branches of a flowering gum tree They are not very easy birds to see But their numbers are in plentiful supply And you know them by their chirpings as they fly.