Isaac, one very happy lad showing
off his Uncle’s books in sunny
Motueka. My, how my books have
travelled world wide!! Kerry the farmer’s sister has distributed the
cow book featuring her brother, to
her farmer relations

Kerry the Farmer, Mik and Moira Peryer with Susan Wildblood, the wonderful book illustrator and the Te Horo school children.

There are many black swans on the Waimanu lagoon at the moment, with a couple of pairs nesting. This means that the cobs that are nesting spend lots of time chasing the younger birds all around the lagoon and up onto the bank if they can, keeping them away from the bird nesting.

The swans are nesting. Whilst taking two English tourists around the lagoons we watched with interest when a large swan powered across the water to its mate who was sitting on the nest hidden in the scrub.

Farmer Kerry being asked if he has lost any cows?
” No way they are k/m from the sea –perhaps I had better check –
Goodness they are Missing!”
42 ended up at the Waikanae Estuary and no one knew who they belonged too.

For the first time in a long while, the frogs can be heard croaking within both the aimanu and Waimeha Lagoon in quite significant numbers. I don’t know what this
is telling us, but it must be telling us
something.

Look what turned up on the sand-spit! After a false start to the breeding season last year, when two N.Z. dotterels laid three eggs each in the same nest, which made us think that they must have been two females. After a while the eggs were abandoned.

How do you like this for a new swans nest! The biggest we have had on the lagoons. Our swan was sitting on six eggs and allowed her previous brood of four adolescent cygnets to stay on the lagoon

The weather has broken and spring is in the air. All the birds are getting cluckey with nests everywhere. Starting to walk around the lagoons from the northern end we will see what we can see.

Time to look at purchasing, some if not all of my children’s stories featuring Sammy the seals adventures
around the Waikanae
Estuary Scientific reserve
and lagoons.