Bell Birds

To:	"Birding-Aus" <>
Subject:	Bell Birds
From:	"Roger Giller" <>
Date:	Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:48:30 +1100

I have recently read, for the first time since acquiring an interest in
birds, the poem "Bell Birds" by Henry Kendall.

 

I was struck by description in the last two lines:-

 

"And straightway the hues of their feathers unfolden

The green and the purple, the blue and the golden."

 

It sounds as if he is describing a Rainbow Lorikeet rather than a Bell
Miner.

 

Roger.

 

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