The rainbow lorikeets make their nest high up in hole in trunk of tree <br />In old gum or wattle or blackwood maybe <br />Or any old tall tree with a cavity <br />To nest in hole runs in their family. <br /> <br />It has been said in unlined nest they lay <br />Two to three eggs of dullish white to gray <br />And though their nests far too high to climb to for me <br />Their eggs I have been privileged to see. <br /> <br />The rainbow lorikeets so beautiful to view <br />They wear the rainbow colours pink and green and blue <br />And you hear their harsh like calling as they fly <br />In small flocks to flowering gums nearby. <br /> <br />In Eastern Australia these birds are not rare <br />Where flowering gums bloom you will see them there <br />On higher branches taking nectar from the flowers <br />And chirping softly they spend their daylight hours. <br /> <br />On higher branches of a flowering gum tree <br />They are not very easy birds to see <br />But their numbers are in plentiful supply <br />And you know them by their chirpings as they fly.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rainbow-lorikeets/
