25. ROBIN PEOPLE WATCHING

Some mornings are meant for bird-watching.

Some mornings a bird pops out to look at me.

24. PEACE

Four Peaceful Doves sitting on a bath,

Fluffing up, showering and making me laugh.

22. GOLDEN KISSES

Olive Honeyeater looking to the sun,

the light is on your face;

morning has begun. 

21: FEASTING

Welcome Swallows outstayed their welcome in my garden. 

20. SCREAMING AFTER DAWN

6:15 am, I’m feeding Poppy Peahen outside. The sun isn’t all the way up yet. It’s hard to see the Cockatoos in the gum. There’s not light enough to count them.

19. CRAPPY WET WASHING

In 2015, Poppy our Peahen ran away. We didn’t see her for a month. They were weeks of worrying I’d spooked her off. It was because she’d sat on the back door mat making squidgy do-do and I ended up sitting in it. 

16: INHERITANCE

I managed to catch the bird-watching gene from both parents. 

13. HELLO POPPY

When my boyfriend visited me in Victoria, I caged Bernie the Budgerigar.