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Tuesday, 28 December 2004
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I counted six different Kereru around the garden today. I have a few tree lucerne, kowhai trees, and a couple of small almond trees that they love feeding on. They strip the trees of their new leaves, climbing right out to the ends of branches barely big enough to support them, to get the freshest shoots, often breaking the branches in the process. The almond trees have had a really hard time surviving them, but it's worth it to have these guys around.
6:14:41 PM 
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Tuesday, 21 December 2004
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I recently built a bird feeding table in the plum tree after chopping off a couple of large dead branches. This blackbird was one of the first birds to take advantage of it. He spent most of this morning singing from this branch just a few feet away from it.
Once again a fantail shows me his better side. These guys are so difficult to photograph. They move so quickly you need an intuition bordering on precognition to know when to push the shutter button.
10:58:52 PM
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Wednesday, 8 December 2004
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I'm not sure what species these birds are, but they might be Oyster-catchers (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
(after a couple of comments and further investigation, I now think these are Pied Stilts.)
I was watching them this evening,from Boulder Bank Drive at the North end of Nelson Haven. The ripples you can see on the surface of the water are caused by not rain, they are small fish darting around in the shallow water. These three birds in particular were fishing together, moving in a line like a dragnet.
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11:35:18 PM
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