Dear all, Sorry if this sounds a bit like a commercial. I've been trying for quite a while to find note books that can sustain the weather conditions of those...
Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Nov 1, 2005 8:25 pm
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Hi all, Brent reports a Terek Sandpiper, yesterday, at Miranda. Also 7 Sharp-tailed Sands and 2 Curlew Sands, and either the Hudwit or Black-tailed Godwit...
sav@...
Nov 1, 2005 9:32 pm
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Ah yes, I forgot to mention the Terek when it turned up late last week. The Black-tailed is still in fine breeding plumage, so clearly has shifted from a...
'tis good stuff. FYI, we get it from Geostystems (dot co dot en zed). Not as plastically as some others, so less prone to smudging. Cheers, Neil. ... Dear all,...
Hi folks, after much speculation that this might eventually happen given the 200+ birds that now winter on Lakes Forsyth and Ellesmere, Crested Grebes have now...
Hello all, Why write? I use a small tape recorder with a little microphone that clips onto the inside of my jacket. The tape recorder is tucked away in my...
Hi guys, Yep the RiteintheRain stuff is fantastic - I ordered notebooks directly from them via the web - they ship to NZ. The notebooks are nothing but ...
Brent Stephenson
brent@...
Nov 2, 2005 7:45 am
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.and whoops, I should watch my typing. That should have been Geosystems mentioned earlier. BTW, I haven't done any price comparisons. Neil. Neil Fitzgerald ...
Hi folks Just to add my 2c worth. I really like the all weather pens as well. Its
great being able to write with mud or rain on the notebook and not have to...
Graeme Taylor
gtaylor@...
Nov 2, 2005 8:52 am
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Hi all A group of us (seven) did a trip out with one of the commercial dolphin operators this morning at the Bay of Islands on what we thought would be a...
CHRIS GASKIN
chris@...
Nov 2, 2005 9:50 am
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Prof Ken Shortridge will be talking about bird flu with Linda Clark on National Radio 'Nine to noon' at about 0920h tomorrow, Friday Cheers David [Non-text...
David Melville
david.melville@...
Nov 3, 2005 8:33 am
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OOOps! Just heard that the interview has been cancelled. However a National Geographic TV programme 'Superflu' will be broadcast on 13 November at 1130pm. ...
David Melville
david.melville@...
Nov 3, 2005 8:40 am
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Hi all. Does anyone know any good locations for Little Owls around Christchurch/Canterbury region. A friend of mine asked me the other day and I suddenly...
Hi all, Now is the perfect time of the year to try and get some godwit age-ratios if you are out birding. Not many juvs have done much moult, so most are...
This may be of interest to traveling NZ birders. John Denis Lepage <dlepage@...> wrote: Subject: a new birding trip reports searchable database Date:...
Hi folks, Besides Aroha Island, I've heard there is another good place for kiwis in the Bay of Islands area. I wonder if anyone can tell me the name of the...
BlankNot being able to attend the trip to the Tip End I got a quick trip in to the Embankment road Jarvis Road areas this am early . Embankment Road was a...
Lawrence Family
birdman21@...
Nov 5, 2005 6:29 am
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If any birders in the Wellington area are interested there seem to be quite a few Cirl Buntings in the farmland adjoining the eastern side of Lake Wairarapa....
Hi All, Brilliant day here yest. 05/11/05. 2 car loads of us went to Lake Ellesmere via Ridge Rd.[18-20 cattle egrets] and a beach patrol on Kaitorete Spit....
Jan Walker
shesagreen@...
Nov 5, 2005 11:43 pm
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Has anyone else noted the spread of different species of birds into their local suburb of Wellington/Hutt Valley? I put this down to the fine work Greater...
What's all this about a NZ Storm Petrel being caught on a boat off Gt Barrier Island. Nothing from you Sav. Sheila Petch. [Non-text portions of this message...
Sheila Petch
petch@...
Nov 6, 2005 4:53 am
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Hi all Well, the BIG news is as follows: "On the 4th November Geordie Murman on Ocean Raider was anchored in Trawler Bay on the NE side of Little Barrier...
CHRIS GASKIN
chris@...
Nov 6, 2005 9:20 am
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Blood sample? Feather sample? I am sure Richard could have written a permit out after the event... ___________________________________ Phil Battley Department...
I spent a few days last week over on the eastern side of Lake Wairarapa. There seemed to be plenty of Cirl Buntings around, I've read that limestone soils suit...
Anyone able to assist with this? We need some people to help with a bird count around Lake Rotopounamu which is about 5 minutes south of Turangi. The plan is...
Keith Woodley
shorebird@...
Nov 7, 2005 8:29 am
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Hi Ian. No photos and no birds in the scrapes. I saw the birds through binochulars and believe they are cirl buntings though I didn't get a good look at a...
On yesterdays pelagic off Lima we had our first Buller's Albatross Thalassarche bulleri for the Lima pelagics since the start in 2000 at the chumming point...