The Axeman's Carnival

Catherine Chidgey

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now.  Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Mar...