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Recent content by nzflutes

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    Bar-tailed Godwit E7 returns after a marathon flight

    We welcome these incredible birds with the ringing of the Cathedral bells when they arrive..here..
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    Alaska - New Zealand non stop

    Godwits Godwits Godwits I am living in Christchurch NZ..and the Godwits arrive here from the Yukon Delta, when the birds arrive here they have lost about half their body weight, and land on the estaury and can hardly stand up and actually stagger around for a bit until they feedup..I also just...
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    Bats in the Belfry

    Well it looks as though my Northern Hemisphere friends know more about our 'bats' than I do !!..yes there are two species .. with a third possibly extinct...and looks as though the ones we saw years ago up near Nelson may still be around there still..good for them.. Caroline
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    Bats in the Belfry

    Hello all...sorry so slow to nreply...shall find out some more about the bats here..and get back.. As far as I know there is only one native bat in NZ..and it is 'native'..and will check out about hunting on the ground..but doubt it.. They are VERY rare here now unfortunately...there was a site...
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    Bats in the Belfry

    In case anyone needs a laugh today..here goes.. I am in NZ and we call the things that go up in our rooves as packing for heating..."BATS"..! We also have a rare native bat here in NZ.. Well I just bought my flat in Jan..and was not sure if my flat had the heating kind of BATS!! So when my...
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    65.000.000 year old 'Mosasaur' fossil found in NZ creekbed

    Anyone interested go to Google and look up ...Canterbury/fossil/find/NZ Cheers :bounce: Caroline
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    65.000.000 year old 'Mosasaur 'fossil found in NZ creek bed

    If anyone is interested to find out more..go to Google search and look up Canterbury fossil find.. Caroline :bounce:
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    Busy busy blackbirds !

    Well it must be around 2-3 weeks since the first lot of blackbirds hatched.. Now the female is back nesting and I presume it is the male who is educating three young ones on how to peck at the pieces of apple I have left on the lawn.. It is a most enchanting sight..they sort of line up like...
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    Kea - New Zealand's parrot

    Hello Jas.. Have always loved our keas...gorgeous stroppy character birds..!! Used to see heaps up at the skifields when I was young..very inquisitive and into everything..they got a bad name for attacking sheep and lambs and the high country farmers used to shoot them! So not so many...
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    caroline nz.

    Yes Jo....Nice to hear from you...feel this link with Alaska thanks to this amazing bird...think that maybe we should ring the bells at both ends..when they leave and when they arrive! Well what a lucky Kiwi to have had that lovely holiday with you..love to visit Alaska...maybe in a year or...
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    caroline nz.

    Yes Pete and Andrew..!! The thing is that I am sure that these birds have got bigger each year..I wonder if anyone weighs them..they are getting as big as the ducks!! the ones around here are HUGE... Well ty Andy..now I know when they were introduced...I am really just a bird watcher and...
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    giant petrel

    Hey Cateyes.. You might like to look up your search and look for Campbell Island or look up the Sub Antarctic Islands..they are south of NZ..and run by our Conservation Dept..I believe that they breed down there.. Maybe one day you could save your pennies and do a trip down there..there are a...
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    shining cuckoos invade grey warblers nest again

    well once again these 'wicked birds' have arrived here in NZ..and will commence to plant their eggs in the Grey Warblers nests...having first pitched the poor Warlblers own eggs out on the ground!! the grey warbler has a hanging nest..with an entrance in the side which is actually too small for...
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    caroline nz.

    Hello Eagle.. Nice to hear from you...I am in the South Island of NZ...in a city called Christchurch... The tuis are a lovely bird..unfortunatley not too many around here..although there are heaps of kowhai trees that they usually love.. I hear there are a lot in Wellington..at the moment... We...
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    caroline nz.

    thankyou there Salty.. :bounce: Caroline
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