We feed the birds in our garden many things, one of which is oranges. Usually it is just the Silvereyes that show any interest in the oranges however just lately one of the many tui that visit the garden has taken such a liking to oranges that it doesn’t bother with the sugar water at […]
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Silvereyes, TuiYesterday I saw a Tui feeding from the Kowhai at the front of the house. I grabbed my camera and shot through the glass. It was so dirty that the image came out with a haze in front of the entire scene. It ended in the trash can. So I washed a patch of the
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TuiEvery now and then we have a bird hit the window due to the trees being so close to the house. It usually stuns them briefly and then they fly off as if nothing has happened. This morning I heard the thud and turned to look. Just outside the door was a tiny silvereye, totally
Our back garden looks like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Birds” at the moment. There is easily up to a hundred silvereyes flitting around the trees feasting on the hanging bananas and drinking from the tui feeder. When the tui arrives they scatter and wait quietly. There is a definite hierarchy in the bird
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