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This week we feature a kererū couple, photographed by Louise Thomas in Lower Hutt.
This is what she wrote about her picture.
"It was both beautiful and sobering coming across a nesting kereru (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae), aka wood pigeon, couple yesterday - I was following a grey warbler at … View moreThis week we feature a kererū couple, photographed by Louise Thomas in Lower Hutt.
This is what she wrote about her picture.
"It was both beautiful and sobering coming across a nesting kereru (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae), aka wood pigeon, couple yesterday - I was following a grey warbler at the time. They had set up their twiggy nest in the crown of a punga tree.
The couple were so intensely private I felt like an atheist that had accidentally stumbled into a church or a mosque - big and bumbling and out of place, but in awe and still having a grotesque fascination for the stain-glass windows. I took my photos and quietly left."
Brown, 3 seater and 2 seater to give away either together or separately. Both have damage to the sides from the cat scratching them but lots of wear left everywhere else. Want these gone asap but cannot deliver - have to be picked up.
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Check out the result from these Roman Blinds. Looking good as new thanks to our cleaning team.
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We took a jaunt out to Matiu/Somes Island on Friday - it's a great outing from Days Bay. Lots of skinks (pic tomorrow) and these guys, the kākāriki, aka red-crowned parakeet. My husband has also seen them up at the Manor Park golf course and another friend said she has seen them up in … View moreWe took a jaunt out to Matiu/Somes Island on Friday - it's a great outing from Days Bay. Lots of skinks (pic tomorrow) and these guys, the kākāriki, aka red-crowned parakeet. My husband has also seen them up at the Manor Park golf course and another friend said she has seen them up in Maungaraki.
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At the moment there are banded dotterels to be seen on our beaches. They are quite hard to spot so you have to get your eye in - check along the strip behind the Settlers Museum. It is important not to disturb the nesting sites around Eastbourne and Wainuiomata - these are roped off, and definitely… View moreAt the moment there are banded dotterels to be seen on our beaches. They are quite hard to spot so you have to get your eye in - check along the strip behind the Settlers Museum. It is important not to disturb the nesting sites around Eastbourne and Wainuiomata - these are roped off, and definitely please keep your dog on a lead in the middle section of Petone Beach (as all the signage where the dotterels like to hang out says!). Not going inside the roped off areas at nesting sites is really important - the chicks and eggs are so well camouflaged that it would be easy to step on a nest before you realised it was there. Unfortunately these little guys haven't had a lot of luck with their nesting with successive generations being wiped out by predators (usually domestic cats, but sometimes hedgehogs and rats in the Hutt), they are now listed as Nationally vulnerable and their numbers are declining. I'd hate to see them go extinct, which could happen in my lifetime if we don't take better care around their nesting sites. You might notice that some of the birds that turn up on Petone Beach have little tags on them - this is so researchers can track their movements and know which birds are successfully breeding. It's how we know that some of these little guys like to go spend the New Zealand winter in places like New Caledonia. The nest photo is taken when I was helping the Mainland Island Restoration Operation (MIRO) with their monitoring programme, but the rest were taken on Petone Beach just yesterday - they don't nest there fortunately, they just come around to Petone to feed.
Free fire wood probably only suitable for a wood burner. Has been drying for two and a half years. Pick up Johnsonville. Thanks
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