Singing Honeyeaters For Them

Often seen as single or in pairs or in small flocks three or four On flowering shrubs and bushes by the ocean shore Honeyeaters of dark brown, yellow and breasts of striped grey People walking by the southern sea hear and see them every day They are not birds who do have a widespread fame Singing honeyeaters for them is their common name In cup shaped nest of grass on fork of small tree the female bird lay Two or three palish eggs from view well hidden away For honeyeater they have a rather loud song Once seen and once heard one should never again get them wrong They are more trustworthy of humans than most other birds are When you approach them from you they never fly far To nature walkers by the southern shore they are well known Singing honeyeaters do have a charm of their own.