Swallows skim across the water
Pigeons coo as they perch along the pipeline high above the water
Galahs screech as they make their way across the sky
The thrush hops about the bushes, seeking insects
A pair of parrots briefly pause in the tree
An orange hover-fly quivers on the ground
A busy ant carrying a load homewards
Droning in the distance is a plane
Magpie chortling in the tree
Finches chattering, bouncing about in the bushes
Another noisy mob of galahs approaches, they’ve finished the morning feeding and are making their way to water
Pigeons flutter away, circling, 20-30 birds wheeling and turning in the sky
A Piping Shrike shrieks at the galahs
Pigeons settle on pipeline again
Willywagtail scolding
Wind caressing the leaves of the tree
Bees buzzing in the background
Reeds rustling and swaying
Blue crane glides in to the shallow crossing and fossicks about between the rocks and the reeds, peers into the water
Reed bird chirps, hidden from view
A fish splashes upstream, so quick that it can never be seen, only the tell-tale sounds, show it’s moving around
A crow caws, proclaiming this land his
Was that a cricket?
A butterfly flutters by
Willywagtail couple pop over to say hullo, and have a preen on the the branches above me, then singing the sweetest song
All this in little more than the space of time to write it down.
Dull and boring in the country? Never!!
