Welcome to the Midnight Collective Broadsheet 134
Actively
supporting NZ’s endangered wetland birds
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| Royal Spoonbill, very early Sunday morning views the flood with approval... |
We are cramped for time but putting up this quick post of
fotos of yet another flood through the Wharemauku creek this weekend.
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| Wharemauku spills its banks 8.30am Sunday morning |
Something is definitely going rogue in our weather patterns
because we have been watching this area for 5 years now and floods like this
one used to occur every two years. We have had four since September 2016.
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| Height of the flood Sunday lunchtime |
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| Fourth time since September |
We recorded 120 mm of rain over 36 hours and once again the entire area on both sides of the now open
expressway were flooded as the waters rose through the Saturday night and then
flooded through Sunday.
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| A rough count came out at 140 birds |
The very positive aspect of all
this is the return of waterbirds to this area. We counted 140 paradise duck,
teal and mallard along with . This is in the early morning when we also spotted
the royal spoonbill (above).
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| 3 Welcome swallows rest up during flood |
While black fronted dotterels seem still to be
around.
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| Black-fronted Dotterel back at the wetland |
We’ll be looking in more depth at
these developments in new posts.
