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Comment by Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry yesterday

Enjoyed the video Vlada, many thanks

Comment by ënagualí~ᏉL𝐀ᗪἇ ኔጡ። on Friday

Comment by ënagualí~ᏉL𝐀ᗪἇ ኔጡ። on May 21, 2024 at 7:56pm

Well true that,hense I'm a bird man,as I to sing my own songs all day long lol..

Comment by Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry on May 21, 2024 at 4:10am

‘Without birds, where would we have learned that there can be a song in the heart?’
~ Hal Borland

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Comment by Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry on May 17, 2024 at 2:39am

The newborn ones give us hope, like signs of new beginnings, spring is perhaps my favourite time of year

Comment by ënagualí~ᏉL𝐀ᗪἇ ኔጡ። on May 16, 2024 at 3:07pm

Ahhh those are true beauty & so cute babies.. they are adorable..nature has a natural way dosnt it..

Comment by Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry on May 16, 2024 at 2:52am

The moorhens don't fly well, usually just low flyers from what I've seen.

I got an email from the canal and river trust this morning with pictures of the baby swans, moorhens and coots

I've had a couple of days of painting as my friend's been staying and a trip out to the garden centre...it's great because they have a Hobbycraft there and I get to go visit the aquariums.  I love seeing all the fishes and got some ready grown antirrhinums in a gold orange colours, so that's my job to pot them up today a I've been sorting out my planters and weeding.

Think there was a kill on the lawn, lots of feathers about, there's a sparrow hawk which I see occasionally, he or she sits on the fence with back to the garden tearing bits of his kill

Comment by ënagualí~ᏉL𝐀ᗪἇ ኔጡ። on May 14, 2024 at 7:23pm

Moorhens thats a good name for them,yours have awesome colours,the Pukeko are actually very cleaver birds, but very poor fliers, and have no road sense too, they often get run over,cos they make their nests way to close to the road edges, then try to fly over the busy road like in a random decision... but then dont get enough height cos their bodies are too heavy..so they become fodder for the native falcons & hawkes..who eat road kill, then they too have been known to get hit by traffic trying to take off with their road kill,only they not getting up high fast enough either..tragic really but part of natures selection over here..

Comment by Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry on May 14, 2024 at 3:45am

Thanks for those pictures, the moorhens are so funny, great to watch.  The story I remember was having a little pouch of food one day, I left it on the well deck and on jumps Mr or Mrs Moorhen snatches the bag then jumps off and takes the bag to the island to share with his family, or maybe they ate it all themselves, was never sure.  When my friend first got the boat a moorhen ran inside down the steps we tried to shoo him out but he flew up and got his claws in the net curtains over the sink...the babies are like little punk rockers with their little tufted heads, then later the juveniles turn brown then finally the adults look like they've had their beaks dipped in yellow then red paint pots.

Not often the coots are seen, but they do appear occasionally.  I see a couple of the Canada geese when they come to check if there's food, I call them Elvis and Priscilla as Elvis does a rather good impression of Elvis Presley

Comment by ënagualí~ᏉL𝐀ᗪἇ ኔጡ። on May 13, 2024 at 4:22pm

Ahh yes I can see that happening,same thing happens over here in the central Hamilton lake Rotoroa too,they have those Canadian geese & Black geese, various duck species & loads of other marsh native birds too....including these wee cuties below..Native Pukeko & Australian Coots..if there is babies about watch out.. enter at your own risk.. 

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