Hi folks, Thanks to some very accurate directions from Gwenda Pulham I spent several hours on the Kaipara peninsular on Saturday chasing various birds with my...
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Suzi Phillips
suzi@...
Sep 1, 2008 9:08 am
Just spent a few days at French Pass near D'Urville Island and watched probably Fluttering (or Huttons?) Shearwaters (up to 12) using White-fronted Terns, (up...
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Ruth & Peter Reese
ruth.peterr@...
Sep 1, 2008 10:00 am
Yellowheads OR perhaps Yellowhammers? Cheers, Peter _____ From: BIRDING-NZ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:BIRDING-NZ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Suzi Phillips Sent:...
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David
lawrie@...
Sep 1, 2008 10:05 am
Yesterday, Tony Habraken and I went to the Clarks Bay Shellbanks and found 3 Godwit showing signs of having arrived in the past day or two. They were with...
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Suzi Phillips
suzi@...
Sep 1, 2008 10:22 am
Ooops, yes yellowhammers of course !! Sorry, typo, must have been wishful-thinking ! Suzi ... From: Ruth & Peter Reese To: 'Suzi Phillips' ; 'Birding NZ' ...
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Suzi Phillips
suzi@...
Sep 1, 2008 9:33 pm
Spotted Doves are becoming noticeably more numerous on the North Shore (Auckland). from Birkenhead to Albany (as well as sightings at Orewa and Tawharanui). ...
We have a rural block of native bush on the edge of suburbia, 3 kms from Botany Town Centre (South East Auckland). A few years ago, we were in the habit of...
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Stephen
stephen11@...
Sep 1, 2008 10:13 pm
They're all-year round in my back yard in Pt Chevalier, but most I've ever seen at one time are three pairs in summer. Interested to hear from Simon that he...
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Phil Hammond
philxhammond@...
Sep 1, 2008 11:43 pm
gwen pulham and phil hammond went to the waipu river and estuary on sunday most interesting were 260 voc along the river at low tide seen from hamon road....
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Peter Milburn
peter.milburn@...
Sep 2, 2008 12:31 am
24th August 2008, SOSSA PELAGIC TRIP, WOLLONGONG, NSW, AUSTRALIA. Report prepared by: P.J. Milburn. Departed: 07:30 returned at 15:30. Sea conditions: SW 1.0...
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Jan Walker
shesagreen@...
Sep 2, 2008 4:39 am
Hi All, Bev Alexander rang this afternoon from the beach at Waikuku on the S side of Ashley Est. She was looking at a NZ Dott with very red front on the beach...
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Crossland, Andrew
andrew.crossland@...
Sep 2, 2008 8:12 pm
Not a rare bird sighting - although the fact that its probably feeding on our local penguins is making the WF Penguin rarer - the Leopard seal is back in CHCH...
I just went down to see the leopard seal. What a fantastic beastie it is! Its only a young one, about six foot long. For anyone wanting to see it, head along...
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Kevin Matthews
kble@...
Sep 3, 2008 2:18 am
Hi All, talking dogs worrying seals..............19 Fur Seals were killed just recently at Ahipara Northland very recently........Follow the Northland Age...
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Lloyd Esler
esler@...
Sep 3, 2008 5:15 am
Would it be heretical to suggest that the best thing for a Leopard seal would be a bullet? They have a population possibly in the millions and they are a...
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Paul Scofield
pscofield@...
Sep 3, 2008 10:48 pm
Hi all, With the arrival of a few warm days, the daffodils and the beginning of the breeding season of our passerines, it is only a matter of days till the...
Hi all, As some of you know, the August pelagic trip from Dunedin was cancelled due to poor weather. I am currently working on a new trip for mid-October. At...
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Crossland, Andrew
andrew.crossland@...
Sep 4, 2008 1:09 am
Just a quick note for Godwit influx watchers - The Avon-Heathcote winter flock has dropped from 202 on 12 june to 171 birds on 7 Aug to 64 birds today. 30...
Has anyone managed to read, or even got started reading Notornis 54? It is mostly about validating locations from satelitte telemetry and is full of...
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Jan Walker
shesagreen@...
Sep 4, 2008 5:04 am
Is Leopard Seal on the NZ list? ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I've just about finished two weeks tripping around the South Island. One of my main targets was crested grebes. Pairs seen on most of the west coast lakes,...
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David
lawrie@...
Sep 4, 2008 8:30 am
I received a message today from DOC North Shore about reports of numbers of dead Gannets washing up on East Coast, Auckland, beaches. Can people check to see...
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Adrian Riegen
riegen@...
Sep 4, 2008 6:06 pm
I have a record of Nick seeing one there on 26.01.01 nothing since Adrian ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Stuart Did you look at the pictures? THE interesting thing in that issue was the incubating Sooty Shearwater that flew to Chile and was then recaptured back at...
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Mike Bell-8236
Mike.Bell@...
Sep 4, 2008 8:12 pm
I am afraid everybody that I disagree with these points of view. Notornis is the scientific publication of OSNZ, and as such is the appropriate place to...
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Graeme Taylor
pterodroma@...
Sep 5, 2008 10:32 pm
Hi David and Birding-NZers I think the gannet deaths are more widespread than just Auckland. In the past few weeks we have had a spike in the number of...
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David
lawrie@...
Sep 5, 2008 11:54 pm
Graeme, Thanks for that. I have just received a note from Noel Knight, who walked 2 km of Waipu Cove on Thursday and he found 5. I found 1 at Mt Maunganui a...
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Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Sep 6, 2008 5:41 am
Deal all, These dead gannets are very intriguing. At Farewell Spit we had a couple of times dead birds in high numbers. Were gannets are very much dependant on...
Went to Miranda today and found quite a few obviously newly arrived godwits and handful of new knots. Their wings droop a bit at rest and many have patchy...
