The craziest bird sometimes is the Tui bird, they are smart, aggressive and they are mimics. They have beautiful melodious song and love nectar.
You go to photograph them in spring and they are busy playing musical chairs. They fly over head like a puffing bellows. They can be very noisy.
They shine out like a New Zealand beckon but our National Bird is the night flightless bird,, the Kiwi…I have never seen one except the zoo and then not very well.
The Tui, is a real wacky bird…….
Tui feasting on Flax Flowers
This guy was talking and watching me
Tui feasting on Pink spring flowers
Here is a front view of the Tui
Tui feeding on Bottlebrush flowers
Taken in Onehunga outside an old bowling club that has been turned into a collective garden hosted by a Pacific Island group.
So these birds are like what mockingbirds are to us.
What an amazing capture! At first I thought it’s a painting!
Thanks so much Ellie, this was taken when we were house sitting for my sister Felicity and John when they went overseas. It was at Te kauwhata where they live and they have done extensive work on their garden…..