I just got some gorgeous photos of my friendly fantail, or piwakawaka in Maori (pronounced pee-wok-ah-wok-ah). But they are on my decent camera so I'll download them when I can (open home here tomorrow morning so hopefully I'll get a chance in the afternoon). They are sweet little birds that are naturally very friendly. This little guy is raising his 2nd batch of babies and it looks like he has two so he is hard at work searching out flying insects to feed them. Apparently babies need to be fed every 10 minutes. So it's no wonder he is happy to eat the moths I catch him that roost under the roof of the chicken run. He'll even sometimes take them right from my fingers.
Then we have our pair of ducks who alternate between swimming in the stream and demanding food. I'm just a sucker and the birds know it! Last night they slept under our pohutukawa (poe-hoo-too-kah-wah) tree. It's considered NZ's Christmas tree as it has bright red flowers which bloom in December. They are early bloomers this year after a wet winter.
(my phone camera doesn't like taking a photo of the whole tree but here are the pretty flowers).
Then we have our pair of ducks who alternate between swimming in the stream and demanding food. I'm just a sucker and the birds know it! Last night they slept under our pohutukawa (poe-hoo-too-kah-wah) tree. It's considered NZ's Christmas tree as it has bright red flowers which bloom in December. They are early bloomers this year after a wet winter.
(my phone camera doesn't like taking a photo of the whole tree but here are the pretty flowers).
