A Very Brief Glimpse of Aussie Nature

Watching several events, happening by the creek
kookaburra  arrived and is perching in the trees
He has a tiny lizard firmly grasped, within his beak

Head tilts back, lizards gone, with a mighty scoff
many green leaves rustling in the cooling breeze
No longer seen, blue wing kookaburra has flown off

Eucalypts are exuding a golden yellow bloom
a strong scent  attracting blue banded native bees
Rainbow bee-eaters hover, many bees they do consume

Kangaroos are hopping by, stirring  clouds of dust
feel a nasal tickle, there's now a need to sneeze
Suddenly the breeze becomes a strengthened gust

Scrub python awaits, for an unsuspecting prey
Green tree frog! Jaws quickly snap! A rapid seize 
Now coils,self sufficiency it has been done today

Flying foxes, are screeching through the night
consuming all the fruit an appetite to appease
Early morning, thousands of bats now out in flight

A multi coloured male Cairns bird wing butterfly
a seasonal common sight to surely please
In diverse vegetation, he goes gently floating by

A Tube nose bat, is suspended upside down
Maybe this position will stretch both her knees
Perhaps she's exhausted from many hours flown

Plague proportion of grey rabbits,  throughout Australian land
In the eighteen hundreds introduced from overseas
Unsuccessful eradication programmes, times many planned

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