The Kowhai Trees are flowering
It is a pity their brilliant yellow colouring reminds me of flowering gorse - that's happening too. Gorse is an introduced species that is a right nuisance.
The Tuis are getting drunk on the kowhai nectar
Next they will move onto the flax flowers, so will be at my place. The tui is incredibly noisy. They chortle and chuckle away before bursting into song. That is when they are not immitating the sounds around them, like cellphone rings. They are great mimics and very noisy flyers too. Check them out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tui_(bird
The funniest time is February when they go doolally over the purple berries on my Ngaio Tree. Unfortunately the tree overhangs the clothesline, so my laundry sometimes has to be rewashed to remove the purple splats!
All of a sudden it has warmed up here. Only eleven sleeps until we go onto Daylight Saving - a rather daft term as the amount of daylight is as always for the time of the year, we'll just be getting up earlier. The Brit term of "Summer Time" sounds nicer.
Zeb is no threat to the birdlife around our home - he can't even catch a dozy moth. And yes, he's snoring again.
Nighty night folks, enjoy your Tuesday.
3 comments:
I really never understood the whole changing the time thing. They said it was for the farmers! I'm still looking for that cow that can tell time.
I'm happy that it is almost autumn, here. My favorite season. The leaves are starting to turn. We've had a heat spell for the past couple of days, but by Thursday it is going to be back to the 70's. It was good for the crops, though. No one has air conditioning here, because we rarely have really hot temps.
When I was growing up in southern California, we had a Pyracanthia hedge down the whole length of the driveway. In the fall it had red berries which, when ripe, the Mockingbirds would eat and get drunk. They were so, so funny. And yes, we had the mess to clean up, too.
Beautiful pics. I love the changing seasons. How are you?
Priscilla - here the dairy farmers never used to like it. Cows don't understand getting up an hour earlier to be milked, yet the milk company tankerdrivers switch to DST.
Stephen how is the writing going? I like Spring and Autumn best. Never fully appreciated the change of seasons until I spent a Winter in England. I'm "getting there", slowly. Could do without the depression at present. The purrball is a great help.
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