In Yarpturk Today

The sun behind gray clouds is hidden away
But a Blackbird is singing in Yarpturk today
His plain brown mate well camouflaged from the predator eye
Sits hatching her green brown spotted eggs in her nest in a bush nearby
A showery September day in the Moyne Shire in the wind and the rain
The breeding frogs are singing in every pond, dam and drain
From long dry spells to weeks of wind and rain the weather of late years acting strange
Perhaps these are the true symptons of climate change
Though the nest building wild birds chirp, whistle and sing
Weatherwise a hark back to Winter in the early Spring
In climate change the weather can change quickly as climate scientists do say
Yesterday sun and clear skies and wind and rain today
Perched on top of a bare branch a male blackbird does sing
In the wind and the rain of Yarpturk in Spring.