Friends Of The Farmers

Perhaps it is their idea of a Winter holiday
In Illowa in Winter for a few months for to stay
Around the herds of cattle they spend their days
Eating insects disturbed by the big beasts as they graze

From their breeding grounds further north the migratory cattle egrets travel far
And you always will see them near where cattle are
To their Wintering grounds in the south they travel quite a long way
Birds that are friends of the farmers of them one can say

Since insects harmful to the land that flee big trampling feet
To the taste buds of the snow white egrets are sweet
The wonders of Nature never cease to amaze
The one who is worthy of admiration and praise

To reach the paddocks of Illowa of their home place they do fly far south
It can be said of them that they do get about
The migratory white cattle egrets of human kind shy
To the big grazing animals always walking nearby.