Welcome to the Midnight Collective Broadsheet 81
Actively
supporting NZ’s endangered wetland birds
After all our careful observation, perseverance
has finally paid off with the sighting of two kotare on the Wharemauku near the
dune lake this morning. They were sitting together and saw us well before we
located them, so took off and we couldn’t get a shot of them together but managed to follow
their different flight paths to finally get the evidence.
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| Female kotare near Wharemauku |
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| Male kotare -near Wharemauku |
So we have a pair and this is the first time in four
years that we have seen them together. Though perhaps they are responsible for the
youngster at the other end of the creek. If so their nests can’t be close by
because they’re usually quite visible as fledglings. They stick close to their
mother as they learn how to harvest a meal off the local terrain.
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