The Cheeky Chirpers

The little plain house sparrows in feathers brown to gray In parks and in the back-yards they chirp all through the day By so few ever lauded and by so few ever praised Their ancestry not Aussie though Aussie born and raised. Whilst others birds are singing they merely chirp along The cheeky little chirpers are birds without a song The males from the females distinctive much darker around the face Without them your back-yard would seem much a duller place. They seldom do stop chirping to sunset from sunrise The cheeky little chirpers not hard to recognize In Spring on bush, shed rafters or under house eaves they build a nest of hay Lined with feathers and three to six white brown blotched eggs the female bird does lay. Though classified as songbirds the birds that cannot sing Though their chirpings unmistakeable have a familiar ring Quite plentiful within their range the birds everyone know They chirp on trees and bushes under house eaves and in hedgerow.