Lately I have been abandoning posts about two paragraphs in, because:
1) I get bored and think, why be bothered, a generally interested person could get all they need on this topic via Wikipedia.
2) I realise the idea is too complicated to communicate in a blog format and what I'm actually doing is using the blog to consolidate my own thinking on the issue - which is fine for me, but for a hypothetical reader the results are... not particularly... coherent.
So in an attempt to get back in to the swing of blogging practice i offer/subject you, the reader, to the blogging equivalent of a rant about last nights dream or a tour through a family photograph album.
We have been receiving springtime visits to our home garden from Kererū (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae), a wood pigeon indigenous to New Zealand. The other evening there were five of these birds up in the plum trees.
1) I get bored and think, why be bothered, a generally interested person could get all they need on this topic via Wikipedia.
2) I realise the idea is too complicated to communicate in a blog format and what I'm actually doing is using the blog to consolidate my own thinking on the issue - which is fine for me, but for a hypothetical reader the results are... not particularly... coherent.
So in an attempt to get back in to the swing of blogging practice i offer/subject you, the reader, to the blogging equivalent of a rant about last nights dream or a tour through a family photograph album.
We have been receiving springtime visits to our home garden from Kererū (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae), a wood pigeon indigenous to New Zealand. The other evening there were five of these birds up in the plum trees.
Unfortunately, the Kererū are not visiting in order to service our viewing pleasure, they are after food - specifically plum blossoms. This is troubling as for every blossom they feast upon, we lose a potential plum and five beautiful Kererū can demolish a lot of plum blossoms in a week-long course of both morning and evening visits.
we have a similar problem here. the native wood pigeons come to our garden to eat elderflowers. they usually appear around spring when the blossoms first appear, then, as blossoms only last a short time the disappear until the berries ripen.
ReplyDeleteduring berry time we count anything up to 11 big wood pigeons on a single tree.
needless to say the tree looks a little worse for wear.