A Morning Walk and Rainbow Lorikeets

Moon, moon, moon,

Shining bright.

Moon, moon, moon,

My night light.

Moon, moon, moon,

I can see.

Moon, moon, moon,

You're taking care of me.

(Laurie Berkner)

Tucker loves the moon. He looks for it all day long and when he cannot find it he gets a sad look on his face, puts his hands in the air, shrugs his shoulders and says, "Moon?"  We sing the song (above) every night before he goes to bed and when he wants to hear it he says, "Moon, Moon." 

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Tucker has been getting up very early these days. Since it is the weekend and Doug is home, Tuck and I have been going out for a morning walk and enjoying some time together.  He is such a happy little boy. He talks almost as much as Cooper (can you believe it?) just without so many words. :)

It was a particularly beautiful morning this morning.  The skies were blue with tons of fluffy, white clouds scattered about. The temperature was just perfect for being outside- not too hot and not too cold. We walked (well, I walked and he rode) over to Darling Harbour. I felt a need to be by the water this morning.  The city was pretty quiet at that hour. The only people out were those doing the walk of shame (hee) and some homeless people.  The streets were littered with rubbish from people out and about last night.  That bothered me, so I concentrated on the sky and the beauty of the water that lay ahead. As we approached the harbour, Tucker got so excited. "Birds! Birds!"  He kept saying over and over. There were a ton of the Australian Ibises flying around and making a terrible ruckus.  Not sure what was going on, maybe they were enjoying the peace of the morning too and having their say!  It is amazing to see such a large and awkward looking bird fly so gracefully and land on a limb of a palm tree with out toppling over. I had to stop and watch that a while.

Darling Harbour at 8 at 7:30 am...

Our first stop on our walk was Starbucks. Tucker walked right in and greeted everyone with an enthusiastic, "Hi!" Several of the employees did a double take when they realised that that little peanut (Tucker) greeted them with such confidence and poise! We sat down and I had some tea and Tucker had a cinnamon roll- a favourite of the boys. We laughed a lot while we sat there.  He is such a character!  He danced to the music, played "Peek-a-boo" with the customers and even grabbed a wipe and did some cleaning.  We then walked around the harbour a bit enjoying the area without the usual crowds of tourists.  

As we were walking home, I heard a bird singing. It was not a sound I had heard since I'd been here so I knew it was not one of the usual suspects. I spent a lot of time looking and listening and then I saw them-- the Rainbow Lorikeets! I have been looking high and low for them wondering just where they could be found. Well, there were! Probably 6-8 of them. They have a beautiful song- very different than the Ibis, Pigeon, Magpie and Noisy Miners that we have become so familiar with.  We watched them for quite some time. They are very hard to photograph since they prefer to be high up in the trees. Thank goodness for my super-duper zoom lens! I was able to snap a few pictures.  Gorgeous birds!