Rude Awakening

Am sure it was a competition To see who could wake the humans The cockatoos started the show With their flamboyant flight And ruckus callings joined by the mad galahs Their screeching an radical swerving The crow just looked on Its bland call to high and mighty For this sight The kookaburras started to laugh In a family group An in joke am sure Nothing like the king of the bush Laughing at Queen Mary falls The king parrots flew through the scene In silent flight As the bower birds jumped round Making car alarm sounds In came the rosellas With a little peep Then on to their tree To wait patiently for a feed This all took ten minutes I look on in discuss And then back at my bed Where I should still be Resting my head