Of :Singing Honeyeaters

Once you does hear and see them you never again can get them wrong
Mottled grey brown birds they have a lovely song
Whatever reason to saltwater they like for to live near
One sees them and hear them singing at most times of the year

On small coastal trees by the ocean them one often hear and see
Familiar birds to many and familiar birds to me
They love the shrubby coastal trees near the saltwater shore
Their cheerful singing sometimes hard to hear when the huge surf waves roar

Known as singing honeyeaters for them such an apt name
Compared to most wildborn birds they do seem rather tame
On small trees in beach car parks they are a common sight
They allow you get quite close to them before they take to flight

Unusual birds for honeyeaters of them one has to say
From the ocean foreshore they are never far away
From their nests in bushes by saltwater they first looked on the lamp of day
And from near where the surf waves are rolling they have no wish to stray

They are birds i see and hear often and my wonder of them grow
Yet so little about them of i can claim for to know
To many coastal people they are birds that are known
Quite territorial in their habits they have ways of their own