Up, up, down, down. 🐦 Canada Geese, on the wing.
These ring-necked pheasants are very common round here. They’re splendid birds, but also kind of incredible. That eye belongs in a cartoon. 🐦
My new favourite — Shedunnit:
a storytelling podcast that unravels the mysteries behind classic detective stories.
I’ve listened to 3 episodes so far and it’s just so good! If, like me, you enjoy reading mysteries, or perhaps if you write them, give this show a try.
We see Kingfishers around here quite often — usually in the garden. I didn’t really expect to see this little one on the beach yesterday. 🐦 Kōtare, Sacred kingfisher
I spent an age today making a Big List of Waikawa Beach Birds. Counting only live birds, not those washed up on the beach, there are over 50! 🐦
These Rock pigeons, although common everywhere, are actually not that easy to find at Waikawa Beach. 🐦 I first spotted them a few months ago, but it was only yesterday things came together for a quick photo of one. It flew away immediately. 😒
This spammer failed to trick the detection engines by using these intriguing font forms. However, I do like the overall look. Must have been a big job to create.
These two annoyingly distant Spur-winged Plovers were at the beach this morning. I’ve been wanting to get photos of them, but am a bit disappointed with the results. 🐦
A few small shakes overnight, 2 very close and shallow 〰️:
- Sun Mar 20 2022 8:28 PM: 15 km south-east of Seddon; M4.5; Depth: 10 km.
- Sun Mar 20 2022 11:50 PM: 10 km west of Levin; M3.2; Depth: 5 km.
- Mon Mar 21 2022 12:08 AM: 10 km west of Levin; M2.6; Depth: 5 km.
I was never really very fond of gulls, but I’m coming to quite like the ones at Waikawa Beach. Tarapunga, Red-billed gull. 🐦
I really enjoyed The Girl Who Killed You (The Shee McQueen Mystery Thriller Series Book 3) by Amy Vansant 📚:
Shee quickly tracks [a missing] boy to a Bahamian island playground … The job seems such a breeze, she hires her daughter to infiltrate the age-restricted compound.
Waikawa Beach at 9 am on a cool, clear, sunny, still morning. Paradise.
After completely draining the batteries on my original Airpods and case as a problem solving step (I hope), today I thought it’d be good to run my M1 MacBook Pro battery right down for a change. Takes a while…
Sasha getting back to basics. 🐶
Some kind of spacecraft launching gantry? No. Pouring concrete at the new subdivision, starting an hour+ before sunrise at 6 am! Photo at 7 am, just before sunrise. I’m not super happy about this pre-dawn activity.
This is now my official preferred scrambled egg dish: Soft Scrambled Japanese Tamago Rice Bowl. Totally yum!
The garden shop down the road has had Cabbage Trees on sale for a while now. I’ve already planted 14 in various spots but today I bought another 7 and planted them by the gate where we had a pile of mulch we’ve used up.
In the next-door-paddock-but-one the farmer grows corn or maize. Today was harvesting day. One machine harvested the maize and blew it through a chute into a trailer, then the tractor would take away the full container and replace it with an empty one.
Another really good read in the Goodbye series: Goodbye Lake Street by Anne Shillolo 📚:
Police and a secret group of citizen investigators are locked in a battle for child safety, and Detective Constable Holly Towns finds herself trapped between the two.
