Why would you bulldoze this?

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Actively supporting NZ’s endangered wetland birds

This magnificent Royal Spoonbill was pictured feeding (with two others out of picture) 5 minutes walk from the centre of a town keen  to identify itself as The Nature Coast. 

It’s a short 20 minute boat trip to New Zealand’s premier endangered bird sanctuary Kapiti Island. Here they have started a colony and they fly across the strait to feed.

This dune lake used to be one of the few safe wetland areas where this bird could do so in reasonable safely in the centre of an urban area. At the height of the season there is a lot of food in this lake where five of these birds have been seen fattening themselves up at one time.

They seem to like it here and would have proved a major drawcard for local people and visitors alike, had the wetland been recognised and protected, but its too late now because they haven’t been seen since early January 2014 when the Expressway excavations got underway in earnest.

They have been spotted feeding in a retirement village pond down by the coast however, though this is a much more perilously enclosed habitat for these large birds to get in and out of, and they are much more at risk from harassment by dogs.

So we are stumped too!

Track we were listening while posting this? Well, hasn't been a track at all, but wall to wall Coachella on a 46inch screen and high density sound in the dark with curtains drawn and right through the day –Ok we agree, it is shameful, but we simply can’t help ourselves anymore and don’t even try to. This is the first time its been beamed all the way over here from California where you might almost think you’re there though even with five screens we couldn’t keep up with everything and missed Royal Blood while still hoping to catch them on a replay; but goodness knows how those on the ground manage to get round everything when we couldn’t. Enough already! Our pick for who got away with the top prize is Run The Jewels who have a chemistry that couldn’t be bottled try all you might, for it flows right through everyone on stage and then into the audience at large – though hey! we couldn’t hear most of the words which is probably just as well – We are rock and roll people however and Jack White should have walked away with this one by a country mile but he’s turned into such a flawed human being that we didn’t want to encourage him any further because, though  we all have our moments we try a little harder, than he seems to want to; the next time around…

And it’s now Monday over here but we’ve  still got a day to go, so we’ll be staying right where we are.

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