Asylum Seekers Centre gardeners and friends L to R: Teresa, Robyn, Stefan, Vera, Michael, Jessica, Figgy the bird, Auntie Fran

When the newly planted food forest at the Asylum Seekers Centre in Surry Hills was launched in December a photo was taken of the gardeners standing in the garden at the front, including Auntie Fran who suggested indigenous food and medicine plants, Figgy the young Figtree bird who was pushed out of its nest by the bully bird from New Guinea, the Koel, and was being fed from a syringe by its carer, Jessica, and others.

For info on that bird that can drive me nuts with its one syllable, monotonous carping call, visit:

birdsinbackyards.net…

May Figgy and that lot be with us, and the Koels be gone,

Michael