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  • Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

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    The Planet of the Apes

    Pfft. We don't need no stinkin' apees .We got Pu Kek OOOO!

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

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    Argh! He went sideways!

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • JacksonP, in reply to ,

    Your software's messing with you. Getting vertigo?

    Auckland • Since Mar 2011 • 2450 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

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    Oh forget it. Swinging him 'round like that ,he's off. :)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to JacksonP,

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    You think you fix it then it stuffs up again and then it's too scary to try , oh 3rd time lucky....

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    Ha! He was a very determined little character at Western Springs today. I'll move him on over to the City Scenes. that may have been his problem. He's a city bird. All dressed up with no where to go.;)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,

    Love pukeko!
    There are a few round the lagoon, but they rarely desert its margins….which is a huge change in the local pukeko behaviour. When I arrived here, 37 years ago, the whole place was *their* territory. But then – fences went up, and more & more bipeds of a different kind arrived and built, and they brought %$!&#!! dogs* and the pukeko retreated-

    *dont get me wrong – I dont hate dogs. I am just very firmly of the opinion that a major bird area is NOT the place for them.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

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    *dont get me wrong – I dont hate dogs. I am just very firmly of the opinion that a major bird area is NOT the place for them.

    Yes I kept Stella a long way from them today, but she is very aware that they need quiet . She retreated to sit under a tree and watch the swan, eels and goldfish and a moor hen in the waters below. She preferred to sit quietly. She really is a good girl

    So that happened

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • JacksonP, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,

    So that happened

    What? ;+)

    Although, I might eventually have to go off and do something other than hanging around here so I can fix things up for you. Just sayin'.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2011 • 2450 posts Report Reply

  • David Hood,

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    My best Takahe photo (raining, long range, etc). Te Anua.

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW,

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    Porphyrio rivalry -
    Humph - eats like a pig, hogs all the attention - and just look at her! No dress sense and built like the back end of a bus!

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to JacksonP,

    All fixed now I see. thanks Jacks. Oh look I've given you a nickname :)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to JacksonP,

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    Awesome, a genuine photo snap! Mine was taken around 1985, on the Demi C Half Frame mentioned earlier. How ’bout yours?

    Found this earlier and forgot to say. Pentax K 1000 around late 80's. Alan Williams (Sculptor) was a friend of t'other 1/2. He lived behind that door. Music nights were there. It was next door to my friends who introduced me to my man. :)
    Now doors, here is a snap for the other one in the middle of your pic. Well it's a standard door, not hard to find with a builder in my life. This door was taken a week ago ;)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to JacksonP,

    Is that first photo the steps of Parliament St Apartments?Know lots of peeps in that Street.

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • JacksonP, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,

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    Surf's up. Where's our resident surfer gone?

    Is that first photo the steps of Parliament St Apartments?Know lots of peeps in that Street.

    Might be. Honestly can't remember.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2011 • 2450 posts Report Reply

  • Richard Aston,

    Those pukeko are great. We had a tribe of them around when my last daughter was born, we couldn't tell the difference between her squawks for food and the pukeko's.
    The way they walk ! It just looks so ... camp.

    Northland • Since Nov 2006 • 510 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to Richard Aston,

    Do you know about their family life? :)

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Jackie Clark, in reply to Richard Aston,

    I can’t be doing with pukeko ever since my mother got some ducks - Khaki Campbells, I think, and they don't fly - and tried to raise their ducklings. If the pukeko weren’t eating the eggs, they were eating the ducklings. Predatory little bastards. I mean, who eats little fluffy ducklings? Pukeko, that’s who.

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie, in reply to Jackie Clark,

    I mean, who eats little fluffy ducklings? Pukeko, that’s who.

    Grim stuff Jackie. Seems their barge-arsed relatives do it too.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

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    D, Kaiaua at the time the shorebirds migrate, some to Siberia.

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  • Jackie Clark, in reply to Joe Wylie,

    That does it! And I always thought takahe were such peaceful birds.

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report Reply

  • Richard Aston, in reply to Islander,

    Do you know about their family life? :)

    No but they do seem to have one - they do seem tribal to me at least. My old neighbor, an artist, recently planed to do a painting of the local pukeko tribe. He went out with his camera and noticed one of the pukeko chicks had been killed by a car. The rest of the tribe were really agitated. He put the chick's body on the grass verge and the "family" gathered around it in a circle , doing a slow dance around the body , dipping their heads towards it , went on for ages as he clicked away with his camera. The final painting looks great and sold really quickly.
    Now that's family life! Coming to terms with the boundaries between life, death and loss.

    Northland • Since Nov 2006 • 510 posts Report Reply

  • Richard Aston, in reply to ChrisW,

    Porphyrio rivalry -
    Humph – eats like a pig, hogs all the attention – and just look at her! No dress sense and built like the back end of a bus!

    Love it Chris , got me laughing .
    I wonder what the Takahe is thinking about the Puke.
    " Bloody poofter, prancing around with that bit of white fluff on its arse, don't they realise there is some serious tucker hiding in this grass."

    Northland • Since Nov 2006 • 510 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to Jackie Clark,

    That does it! And I always thought takahe were such peaceful birds.

    Everyone is always eatin' something. Watched a sparrow eating Stella's beef bone yesterday Fish eat fish eat fish until we get to sprats and they are tucker too. look at us with whitebait. Good thing grass grows well in this country .

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • David Hood,

    I think it is a general principle of nature that most larger herbivores consider much smaller animals to be vegetation if convenient.

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report Reply

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