Capture: BOTY Potty.
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"Once we were Moa"
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A ruru recently stayed in a tree marked for felling at my flat and reminded me how much I like them so they got my vote. Since then the universe has conspired to prevent the tree removed and that's fine with us both.
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Islander, in reply to
Magnificent! Often seen them like this at Moeraki - but that's the first time I've seen a photo-
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Islander, in reply to
TaiAroa David - he is a tupuna of mine-
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Islander, in reply to
Love that wee arms-akimbo kid!
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Islander, in reply to
the abominable Sesqui 1990 avian sasquatch or ‘mascot’.
Sesquatch, surely?
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Islander, in reply to
Oh! That reminds me – has anyone ever seen/heard of a ruru dead from gripping a branch so hard its claws got impaled?
There’s one in my apple tree which I only noticed the other day (a day after I got home from a fortnight in Oamaru…) I cannot understand how it ended up like that… Actually, I think I will just ring FJG DoC and get them on to it.
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I’ve kind of used up most of my bird photos in earlier posts. But these two brass ones at Pah Homestead caught my eye yesterday.
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Fan
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Islander, in reply to
O! Yes!
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Jolly good! At last the birds have their own well deserved thread : )
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Jolly good!
I couldn't begin to vote as I think they are pretty much all spectacular. They can fly!! :)
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..... and then some swim
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Islander, in reply to
They can fly!! :
An albatross can spend literally weeks on the wing....
Swim, dive to depths humans cant; have always, in all sane human societies, been reguarded as prognisticators/diviners/helpmates; can walk further & faster than we can, and show every variant of marriage & parenthood (and a few quite beyond!*) as mammals - including us!*Dunno of any human society that buries its potential young in dung hills, considerately within the the chicks' initial digging strength, breath-holding potential and directional capability...
I can think of quite a few groups of humans I'd love to see try that last caper-
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Islander, in reply to
Ahhh! We have those on the lagoon!
The official word is they were Acclimitisation society releases - the fact is they were self-introduced... -
All good.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
I'm going to invest in 2 nice table books for xmas. One on birds and one on Trees. :)
Even this lil' guy. Bloody cute Variable Oyster Catcher. -
Islander, in reply to
Love that pose! Can we bury our nose/mouth in plummage along our spine?
Naah.
We're apes.
We can lick genitala and put our toes in our mouths - so can a huge number of mammals - but dorsal manouvres?
Fergeddit. -
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Fergedaboutit. :)
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Islander, in reply to
O fly!
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
O fly!
Aye!
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Yea, and we shall swoop and glide and drag wingtips on the glossy ocean...
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Beautiful.
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One more, have probably done it b4.
ooops a bit large but what the hey. -
Little blues....
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