The Magpie Sings for Jakub's birthday aged 2

The Magpie Sings for Jakub's birthday aged 2
It is nearing the end of djilbaa, the Noongar spring.
We are entering early summer on the 31st of October 'Halloween,' but Halloween it isn't.
Here in Perth, in the southern hemisphere it is not Samhain, Halloween, but Bealltainn or Beltane.
It is a festival time, a celebration of life, fertility and the crop.
Here it is a pinnacle of prosperity.
The flowers of the Australian bush are laden with nectar. All matter of birds and frogs have been signalling the arrival of this peak period for weeks.
Yesterday, I had another visit from the singing virtuoso magpie.
He, or she... I find it not always easy to tell... but I think he... showed me again his ability in mimicking the singers around him.
First there was the sound and song of the twenty eight parrot, then came the song of the mud lark, then the morning honey eater and then the wattle bird and others... small brackets of song.
He and the hedge of orange murraya are in flower, all of them singing their songs of nectar and the sweet scents of the season. And my little boy turns two today.
Miles away he is, and I miss him.