Air Pirates of Pinehaven
Oct. 11th, 2009 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mundensThis afternoon the valley of Pinehaven Road was bright, sunny and beautiful
Sally and I were watching a pair of kereru knoodle
when a marauding gang of tui came into the valley on a pub crawl. A flock of maybe forty tui spent the time sipping nectar at each kowhai before flying off en masse to the next kowhai.
Sally first noticed the tui gang as it flew into a kowhai about two houses down. I've circled the bits I'm pretty sure are tui in red so you can see what a flock it was!
They then flew to another kowhai closer to the road on the same property, before flying up the road to a kowhai one house up the road. Then they flew over us and cavorted in the kowhai by my back door
before disappearing down the road again. Meanwhile the local tui, who regularly peers over my shoulder while sipping cherry blossoms
laid low, as did the local kereru
as I'm told such gangs of drunken tui regularly beat on other birds who get in their way.
Sally and I were watching a pair of kereru knoodle
when a marauding gang of tui came into the valley on a pub crawl. A flock of maybe forty tui spent the time sipping nectar at each kowhai before flying off en masse to the next kowhai.
Sally first noticed the tui gang as it flew into a kowhai about two houses down. I've circled the bits I'm pretty sure are tui in red so you can see what a flock it was!
They then flew to another kowhai closer to the road on the same property, before flying up the road to a kowhai one house up the road. Then they flew over us and cavorted in the kowhai by my back door
before disappearing down the road again. Meanwhile the local tui, who regularly peers over my shoulder while sipping cherry blossoms
laid low, as did the local kereru
as I'm told such gangs of drunken tui regularly beat on other birds who get in their way.
