The Tree lucerne in our garden is a splindly bush and hardly a tree. The Kereru manage a range of gravity defying moves to get to the flowers. These city Kereru are also rather chubby!
Showing posts with label native birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label native birds. Show all posts
Monday, April 13, 2015
Visitors
While the Kereru (wood pigeon) is common in our area, we can go for weeks and not have any in our garden. At the moment they are frequent visitors with their two favourite food items being the dry seed pods on the Kowhai and Tree Lucerne flowers.
The Tree lucerne in our garden is a splindly bush and hardly a tree. The Kereru manage a range of gravity defying moves to get to the flowers. These city Kereru are also rather chubby!
The Tree lucerne in our garden is a splindly bush and hardly a tree. The Kereru manage a range of gravity defying moves to get to the flowers. These city Kereru are also rather chubby!
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Visitors
The last few evenings around dusk we've been watching Kaka in our neighbour's apple trees. The Kaka is a New Zealand native parrot and an adult can be up to 44cm in length.
I tried taking photos - they aren't too good given the really low light, the Kakas colouring and that they don't stay still for very long.
Last night there were 7-8 feasting on the apples.
Suburban Wellington has relatively large numbers of native birds thanks to Zealandia (formerly Karori Sanctuary) and Otari Wilton Bush.
We've only started noticing the Kakas in the past year or so. These recent visits being the most we've seen.
I tried taking photos - they aren't too good given the really low light, the Kakas colouring and that they don't stay still for very long.
Suburban Wellington has relatively large numbers of native birds thanks to Zealandia (formerly Karori Sanctuary) and Otari Wilton Bush.
We've only started noticing the Kakas in the past year or so. These recent visits being the most we've seen.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
To the other side
We've just spent 10 days in the South Island. An uneventful trip on the Kaitaki ferry - uneventful across Cook Strait is welcome.
After overnighting in Picton we headed for Westport (~300km). This was an all day trip with a number of stops. First stop in Blenhiem at BV Gourmet Cafe/Deli, for great coffee and food.
As we drove along State highway 63 near a Wyeburn Forest we came across a road-side farm stall selling just the best and freshest Raspberrys and Boysenberrys - they didn't last long!
A brief stop at Lake Rotoiti, brief as it was icy cold and there were bugs.
Birds became a bit of a theme for our holiday, more later.
A walk through the bush at Lyell, to the cemetery on a steep bush covered hillside. The scenery had certainly changed - we were definitely on the West Coast.
We spent four nights at Omau, Cape Foulwind, ~10 minute drive from Westport.
More to come ...
After overnighting in Picton we headed for Westport (~300km). This was an all day trip with a number of stops. First stop in Blenhiem at BV Gourmet Cafe/Deli, for great coffee and food.
As we drove along State highway 63 near a Wyeburn Forest we came across a road-side farm stall selling just the best and freshest Raspberrys and Boysenberrys - they didn't last long!
A brief stop at Lake Rotoiti, brief as it was icy cold and there were bugs.
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| Lake Rotoiti |
Birds became a bit of a theme for our holiday, more later.
A walk through the bush at Lyell, to the cemetery on a steep bush covered hillside. The scenery had certainly changed - we were definitely on the West Coast.
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| Cemetery, Lyell |
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| One way road beside/under Hawks Crag |
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| Looking towards Hawks Crag, Lower Buller Gorge |
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| Cape Foulwind, Lighthouse |
We spent four nights at Omau, Cape Foulwind, ~10 minute drive from Westport.
More to come ...
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