I had an e-mail from a guy at Peka Peka to tell me he had a bird he couldn’t identify, nesting at the side of his driveway. It is a blackfronted dotterel

Thomas the goose is progressing well in his quest to be a father figure to the three cygnets.
The parents are being very tolerant, although the cob isn’t too happy

My retired friend Barry was a physical training instructor, so he likes to run the beach every morning. The red-billed gulls have taken a distinct dislike to having him disturb
their habitat.

It’s a beautiful winter’s day and looking down river, before it turns to muddy sand is a shingle bank. This is a lovely place for birds to rest on.

Pests
Eric from DOC helping Jaime Eaton from Kena Kena School place some peanut butter on an ink pad which is then placed in a plastic tunnel.

Swans’ day out at the seaside
My friend Helen has a lovely B&B at the
beach front, “Helen’s Bed & breakfast”.

The stories I have been documenting these last few years are not only stories of the Waikanae Estuary.

Dave’s story
The farmer had cut the hay paddock. Along the fence line was a drain with rank grass.