This is off topic, but sort of related. I just stood on the verandah looking at the apricot-coloured pre-sunrise sky. I was listening to the butcher birds, the magpies, a kookaburra, another bird that I can't identify with a beautiful clear song, and a couple of other bird types, and watched some of the fruitbats flying slowly back to their roosting spots in the mangrove trees near the creek, next to the harbour.

In the last couple of weeks I've realised that one of the most common calls of the Spotted Dove around here sounds like they are saying, "the vaccine, the vaccine, the vaccine...." over and over. A paid advertisement from the health service, perhaps?