Robins

Gray backs, heads, tails and yellow unders in north east to south east Australia where trees do abound They spend some of their time searching for insects on the graound They have a quiet tweeping monotonous song To the Australian flycatcher family they do belong Sometimes they cling to trunk or perch on low branch of tree In this way the movement of their tiny prey they do see A skink, insect or worm to them a tasty treat In Nature some life forms exist for others to eat In cup shaped nest of bark on a low branch from aerial predators hidden away Two to three green pink speckled eggs the female bird lay Of humankind they do not seem at all shy Eastern yellow robins the name that they are known by Of the Australian flycatchers among the better known They are quite distinctive with ways of their own.