A white feathered friend
Has a lot of news to share
Busy beak; sharp screech
✏️ + 🎨 by Lisa
Hopeful herald
canberra
Autumn lullaby 🍂
Chilly evening
Birdsong lullaby
The sun falls asleep
Fate defied
Tiny yellow leaves
Flutter inevitably
No wait! They're weebills!
*
I’m a weebill I'm
a weebill I'm a weebill
Squeaks the proud weebill
Spotted tail quoll
The spotted tail quoll
Once widespread on the mainland.
But they will be back...
✏️ Paula
🎨 Gus (8 years old)
Moonlighting
In a cloak of fog
the sun impersonates
the full moon
Blue footed booby
Blue footed booby
Grows into puberty blues
Then busts out dance moves
✏️+🎨 by Sophie
* Note the blue footed booby is not from Canberra and so this is not strictly a “Canberra haiku”. However Sophie is from Canberra and she dreams of the blue footed booby.
Fantails
Flittering fantails -
Delighted by the insects
Unimpressed by me
Garden Glutton
Curious possum
His eyes sparkle with delight
Apricots await
✏️ Belinda
🎨 Elliott (12 years old)
Wary basker
Vigilant lizard
Agrees to share her sunshine
Just don’t touch her rock!
Dawn ceremony
Reverent attendees
honour this dawn, except the
Loudmouth cockatoos
Canberra Haiku 