Capture: Colour is the new black
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
The Planet of the Apes
Pfft. We don't need no stinkin' apees .We got Pu Kek OOOO!
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Argh! He went sideways!
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JacksonP, in reply to
Your software's messing with you. Getting vertigo?
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Oh forget it. Swinging him 'round like that ,he's off. :)
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
You think you fix it then it stuffs up again and then it's too scary to try , oh 3rd time lucky....
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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.;)
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Islander, in reply to
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.
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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
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JacksonP, in reply to
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'.
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My best Takahe photo (raining, long range, etc). Te Anua.
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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! -
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
All fixed now I see. thanks Jacks. Oh look I've given you a nickname :)
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
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 ;) -
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Is that first photo the steps of Parliament St Apartments?Know lots of peeps in that Street.
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JacksonP, in reply to
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.
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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. -
Islander, in reply to
Do you know about their family life? :)
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
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.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
I mean, who eats little fluffy ducklings? Pukeko, that’s who.
Grim stuff Jackie. Seems their barge-arsed relatives do it too.
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merc,
D, Kaiaua at the time the shorebirds migrate, some to Siberia.
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
That does it! And I always thought takahe were such peaceful birds.
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Richard Aston, in reply to
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. -
Richard Aston, in reply to
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." -
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
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 .
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I think it is a general principle of nature that most larger herbivores consider much smaller animals to be vegetation if convenient.
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