Kia Ora

Kia Ora

Interesting facts.

NZ. or Aotearoa In Maori, means 'The Land of the long white cloud'. It is quite a young country, geologically active, with tectonic faults and volcanoes, glaciers and rivers constantly building and eroding land. It consists of many islands, the main ones being the North and South island. It used to be part of one land mass, Gondwana, and split off 80 million years ago, taking with it its unique plants and bird life. The first Eastern Polynesian settlers arrived 750 years ago, and the first Europeans to settle arrived in 1769 after discovery by James Cook.

As it is a long thin country, there are several climates and micro climates within, from sub tropical in the North and temperate (similar to UK) in the South. The total population is around 4.2 million ( UK has nearly 63 million) of which 1 million are based in Auckland. Auckalnd also known as the 'The city of sails' (due to a high proportion of boat ownership) is the biggest city, though not the capital, which is Wellinton. Auckland’s weather is warm/hot long summers with mild and wet winters. (average annual sunshine hours= 2050. Manchester=1200 hrs) and (annual average rain=1240mm. Manchester=810mm!) most rain falling as heavy tropical showers in the winter months of June-July

Monday, 28 June 2010

Twitching Jax!

I've never been that interested in local birds, until i have now drastically changed my locality! the birds are way more unusual and exotic, and i cant help but get excited when i spot a new bird.

my lovely (ex) work colleagues bought me a fab set of binoculars,as my leaving present, so i decided to go out one afternoon and see what i could find. Matt and I, were forever spotting birds when out walking, and unable to get a good look at them never bringing the binoculars with us when needed!

So I spotted a good few common birds walking past peoples gardens, through a bit of forest and then along the beach, and consider the outing a great success!


here are some of the more unusual ones....




















they are... the Fantail, Tui, Pied shag, Oystercatcher, Silver eye, NZ kingfisher, and NZ pigeon

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