Sharing Sounds & Sights

Sharing the sounds of country is different from sharing the sounds of towns and cities. The roar of engines, screeching brakes, tooting horns all become part of everyday occurrences in populated places.

Come visiting in the country and you are in another world. Get ready for a listening experience and a lightening of the soul. The daylight hours brings the sound of birds. In the season there is the warbling of the magpies and the squawk of their young, big as their parents, demanding to be fed.

The kookaburras laugh heartily if they sense rain. The kaark, kaark of crows in the distance, the screech of sulphur-crested cocktoos especially when they spy the goanna stalking towards their nests looking for breakfast or lunch or dinner! Hear the black cockatoos as they fly over in their groups. There are so many different parrots.

We have the friendly Kings, Rosellas, Easterns, Green Grass, Gang-gangs and others. There are the various finches, Zebra and Fire-tail, Rose Robins, Fairy Wrens, Blues and Jennys, Honey-eaters, Thrushes, Tree-creepers and Willy Wagtail.

So you have lots of discovering to do. If you are watching at the right moment you could see an Eagle, soaring on thermals, or the flight of flocks of passing birds.

Closer to the ground you could see emus and foxes pass through, as well as wombats, wallabies and kangaroos. And, don’t forget the ducks.

The night sounds are different, because it is so quiet and they seem to be magnified. You hear the possums and bush rats playing on the tin roof. The Mopoke makes its call, the wombats grunt and trees rustle as night critters pass through.

Identifying the sights and sounds helps us join in the tranquillity we share with Nature. Finally lean back and enjoy the patterns in the clouds.