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@Bones did the Weka get it?
I had never seen them in the wild until a few years ago, just in a carpark at Tapeka Point, 2 of them just cruising about.
My cat had killed a couple of weasels when we were renting for a while, which was great as at night you could hear Kiwi calling in the bush.
Fully grown Kiwis are formidable, but it's getting them past egg stage and chicks that is the problem.
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Bones did the Weka get it?
I had never seen them in the wild until a few years ago, just in a carpark at Tapeka Point, 2 of them just cruising about.
My cat had killed a couple of weasels when we were renting for a while, which was great as at night you could hear Kiwi calling in the bush.
Fully grown Kiwis are formidable, but it's getting them past egg stage and chicks that is the problem.
They have a thriving kiwi hatchery on limestone island, which is an open reserve. Once they are adults, they release them on the mainland. An ault kiwi can (not will but can) fight off any predator, apart from dogs. Dogs kill most adult kiwi - not chicks, eggs, but adults.
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@Machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
have a thriving kiwi hatchery on limestone island, which is an open reserve. Once they are adults, they release them on the mainland. An ault kiwi can (not will but can) fight off any predator, apart from dogs. Dogs kill most adult kiwi - not chicks, eggs, but adults.
yeah I spent a day over there clearing paths and the like, but yeah, most people dont know it is a reserve that anyone can go to, you just need to be able to get over the water.
HAs some great history over there.
I went to a relasing ceremony of 2 kiwi form Limestone out Whg heads too, where they have an increasing population of Kiwi with great work from locals as well as DOC and other parties.
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Bones Weka added to favourite animals list. Stoats remain fluffybunnies.
Hatiest!! Only pest I will actively swerve into if the road is clear.
I bowled one of those little shits and kept it in case my fly fishing mates wanted its fur . In the end they didn’t so I chucked it down a post hole . There was a hold up with the concrete and by the time we could pour the hole had caved in .
Being head first down a post hole cleaning out dirt with a four day dead stoat in February is not an experience I ever want to repeat . -
@taniwharugby no idea if it got it!
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