Singing Honeyeaters

Though honeyeaters near saltwater they seem to like to stay
On the flowering coastal trees one sees them every day
Slightly larger than a sparrow in brown, yellow and gray
They do have about them an endearing way
One can say of them that they are strangers to fame
Singing honeyeaters for them is their common name
And they does have a cheerful sort of a song
You see and hear them once and you never again can get them wrong
As well as eating insects and flies and bees
They take nectar from the flowering coastal bushes and trees
Walking near the ocean one sees them every day
Distinctive in their own familiar way
Yellow on the face and mostly gray and brown
Birds i never see in a park of the town.