Spring Arrivals

A wander around my local patch of Truganina Swamp, Altona (in Melbourne's western suburbs) provided a taste of spring with a singing Horsfields Bronze-Cuckoo, actually first seen a week earlier, followed by a Fan-tailed Cuckoo mobbed by several White-plumed Honeyeaters and a Whiskered Tern in full breeding plumage. Add to this a pair of Black Swans with a nest and Little Ravens carrying nesting material and it seems as though spring has arrived.