Rainbow lorikeets have been feasting on this tree at Lagoon Reserve.I found these amazingly appropriate words from Les Murray:
'or the daily
parrot gang with green pocketknife wings.
Bristling food for tough delicate
raucous life, each flower comes
as a spray in its own turned vase,
a taut starburst, honeyed model
of the tree's fragrance crisping in your head'
from Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn
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