Before the pied shags found their shag tree to nest in and before the explosion of the shags population, I used to put my net into the river and catch flounders, of which there was an abundance.

When someone deposited eighteen
Peking ducks onto our lagoons they
didn’t know the consequences.
Presumably these birds came from
someone’s lifestyle block and had
become a nuisance.

Aria and Harper from Miss Russell’s class at Waikanae Primary School contacted me and asked if I would visit their class and give them an overview of the birdlife here at the Waikanae Estuary.

Having posted 134 stories, being eleven years of newsletters, on the “web” and having my computer playing up as computers tend to do I thought it prudent to make it
into a book.

When Thomas the goose died he had spent the last over four years of his life at Craig Shepard’s Bird
Rehabilitation Establishment where,
although he had lost his sight

The white fronted tern, along with the odd Caspian are feeding within the Waimanu Lagoon diving from high for their food

On her morning walks, Pamela has been getting up close and personal with one of our resident harrier hawks,. It likes to sit on the same spot most mornings, and at first we thought it only had one leg!

The cuckoos are about– probably
checking out where the grey warbler
is nesting so they can turf out of the
nest its babies and or eggs and lay
their own eggs in their place.

Look what ended up in Neil’s vege garden here in Waikanae. A chukar [partridge] it must have escaped from someone’s aviary. These birds have been introduced as game birds over time, apparently not very successfully.