More wet weather

An night of steady rain has brought several changes to our immediate environment. The old Eucalypt has burst into flower and the billabong - a horse-shoe loop in a creek that has been by-passed by the main creek - is full and is overflowing its banks. Our home is on this small billabong and as it is not recognised as a waterway by the "powers that be" we can pump water to our gardens from it without needing a license.
The lorikeets that screech and make so much noise in the mornings demanding a sugary treat are now biding their time doing what lorikeets should be doing - taking nectar from the blossom. After the rain that fell through the night the nectar is a bit dilute and this is why they will come in even greater numbers to the feed dish in the wet.
The land the house resides on was once part of a dairy farm and only had two Eucalypts on it when we first bought it. I now have a small forest of native trees that were purchased primarily for the fruit and flowers that attract birds. One of these trees has masses of purple plums on it and so far I have not seen one bird eat any of them! The tree is the Davison Plum - I presume that it might be food for possums since the birds are not interested. Or maybe tree kangaroos - but they are a creature of far north Queensland, not the Gold Coast!
AJ