ABOUT US



ABOUT US
We are from Cornwall, England.
We love to travel and to explore places in a campervan. We find wide open spaces exhilarating
and do lots of walking. Show us an accessible hill or mountain and we want to go up it.
We like watching birds but are not twitchers. To be honest Lawson is more into bird spotting than me but what I find amazing
is the diversity of birdlife, and the fact birds of all sizes continue to live side by side with us humans. So, in the course of our explorations
we may make a detour to the local dump because more often than not it will be one of the best places to see birds.
We are sure New Zealand will not disappoint us when it comes to birds but what about other wildlife and natural wonders?
Will we encounter anything to beat the sight of polar bears on sea ice at the North Pole?
And what will we think of the house at Paraparaumu that Ron and Vivien have built? All will be revealed.......

Bird Log

New Zealand bird list - 1 Feb - 27 Mar 2014
Listed in order first positively identified

House Sparrow
Red-billed gull
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Blackbird
Starling
Yellowhammer
Pied Shag
Little Shag
Southern Black back gull
Black-billed gull
White faced heron
Black Dean
Canada Goose
Paradise Shelduck
New Zealand Shoveler
Mallard
Grey Duck
Grey Teal
Pukeko
Pied Stilt
Pied Oystercatcher
Spur winged Plover
Bar tailed Godwit
Rock Pigeon
Welcome Swallow
New Zealand Kingfisher
Silver eye
Australasian Harrier
Variable Oystercatcher (black phase)
Turnstone
White fronted Tern
Farmyard Goose
New Zealand Dotttel
Banded Dottrel
Kereru
Australian Magpie
Songthrush
Dunnock
Tomtit
Kea
Bellbird
Pipit
Fantail
Redpoll
Black-fronted tern
Little Shag
Marsh Sandpiper
California Quail
Spotted Shag
Scaup
Great Crested Grebe
NZ Robin
Coot
NZ Falcon
Kokutu (White Heron)
Black Stilt
Banded Dottrel
Black-fronted Tern
Black Shag
Royal Spoonbill
Guineafowl
Grey Teal
Royal Albatross
Yellow-eyed Penguin
Skylark
Tui
Yellow head
Brown Creeper
Kaka
Blue Penguin
Sooty Shearwater
Red-crowned Parakeet
Fiordland crested penguin
Rock wren
Weka
Caspian Tern
Fluttering Shearwater
Saddleback
Tahake
Brown teal
Long tailed Cuckoo
Little brown kiwi
Morepork
Common Myna
Little Stint
Blue Duck
Black-fronted Dottrel
NZ Dabchick
Wild turkey
Pacific Golden Plover
Fernbird
Wrybill
Red Knot
Pheasant


Mammals and other non-birds
Red deer
Goat
Possum
Rat
Hare
Rabbit
New Zealand fur seal
NZ sea lion
Hector's dolphin
Ferret
Stoat
Hedgehog
Bottlenose dolphin
Wild Pig
African praying mantis
Burnt pine longhorn
Gisborne cockroach
Black field cricket
Chorus cicada

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