Red Wattlebirds

Not pleasant to listen to the hoarse song they were born with to sing

In every garden in their range with flowering trees their voices a familiar thing

Birds you will know again when them you see and hear

Red wattlebirds their name as they have visible red wattles hanging from under either ear

Of humans they show a respectable fear

And their coughing like calls can be heard at anytime of year

Thrush sized birds with red eyes and slightly curved long thin bills and mostly speckled brown

They even visit the flowering trees in the parks of the town

In a saucer type nest of twigs on fork of branch of tree

The female lay pink spotted eggs of two or three

Honeyeaters to follow their food source they do travel far

And you will always see and hear them where lots of insects and flowering trees are

Birds that will never be famed for their song

But once seen and once heard you will never again get them wrong.