It's amazing how busy we are... I was going to write about all the frosts we had this winter, even here on the bluff just above the sea. Now it's spring and the NZ Fairy Terns are here and hopefully exhibiting breeding behaviour. I saw two white fronted herons doing a breeding dance, they were beautiful. I've seen some California quail here, the last two years I've had families of them born here...they are gorgeous when the chicks follow the parents around searching for food and learning to be grown up quail. They live in extended family units not just with two adults. Sensible, ay?I've just created a cause on Facebook, Save the NZ Fairy Tern, New Zealand's rarest bird. My friends Jessie McVeagh and Murray Nathan and I made two videos for YouTube, just go there and search NZ Fairy Tern and they'll come up or follow these links, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yprf9E1wBdY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN6pfFEWkvU&feature=related Then go to http://www.fairytern.org.nz/ and buy bunches of calendars for 2010 - they're not expensive and terrific Christmas gifts for a good cause.
Only $13 NZ dollars plus $2 postage in NZ. Email pjrangi@vodafone.net.nz for more information, they are the women who created the calendar and sit out on the sand dunes looking after these wee birds. There are some amazing volunteers who help out too.
