52 Blessings - Week 7
When I first moved here, there were very few birds around the area which was hard to get used to - given that I grew up in an area where birds are prolific. Every morning I woke up to a mixture of kookaburras, lorrikeets and magpies. By contrast, the dawn chorus of the birdlife in our area was non-existent. Of course, this changed with the coming of the budgies and the peachfaces but I still missed the sound of the birds outside. After planting a few bottlebrush plants, some grevillea and lillie pillies around our property, the birds are slowly starting to return. Initially, it was just finches, doves and willy wag-tails but now we have a couple of resident magpies and a few lorrikeets which come round periodically to feed on the bottlebrush flowers. Even though we have the cat park on the same side as the bottlebrush plants, the birds don’t show any fear of them and happily browse while the cats have a snooze in the sunshine. 
