A bit of rain

Today is grey and damp but it is still beautiful looking out over the creek. A minor has stopped by hoping for a bit of a feed. Earlier, as the rain started, the air was full of the sounds of bird calls: lorikeets, magpies and currawongs the most familiar, but lots of other small sounds and chirrups and twitterings up and down the creek banks. On other days I have heard sulphur crested cockatoos' harsh "aarcghkk aarcghkk" and masked plovers who always sound as if they are in fright with their quick little shrieks.