Had a cheeky intruder in my garage today chasing me about, eep eep eeping, as they do, nut case aerial skills. Tried to get a vid, but no joy, like trying to film an epileptic roller coaster, then he stopped for a sec.
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Had a cheeky intruder in my garage today chasing me about, eep eep eeping, as they do, nut case aerial skills. Tried to get a vid, but no joy, like trying to film an epileptic roller coaster, then he stopped for a sec.
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he's got your number......
I tried to get a photo of one hanging around u a few weeks ago. All I got was a photo of where he used to be. For a happy bird they have grumpy looking eye brows.
They are quick ah.
We have them coming into the house after flies . Had three in the lounge at one point . Poor dog didn't know what to do with himself ...
Had one deliberately dart in and out of the spray from the garden hose while I was rinsing off the car after washing it.
He’d sit on the fence then dive through the spray and back to the fence repeatedly, funny to watch.
Heres a few that shelter in our fencing shed each time it snows - Attachment 177913
I have a 30 sec video of them all jostling for position, but have no idea how to attach it to a post.
I wouldn't call it an intruder, a visitor or friend perhaps.
Entertaining birds that aren't concerned about humans.
For a couple of years we had a family of nearly jet black pīwakawaka in/around our garden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_fantail
A year or so back the ODT had a pic of ten piwakawaka sitting on a wire, all huddled together, quite ( dare I say it?) cute.
Bloody awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Husky1600
They are amazing little birds. I see them all the time around here. Always say hello to them as if they are a friend.
They have flit in and out of my garage over the years. Even come in with door only half way up.
I used to worry about them due to the Maori lore surrounding them but we're still all here.
I cringe now when I think that as kids we used to hit them with shanghies. Maybe the ones I see are nowadays are linked back to the ones I killed as a kid....... Wish now I had just stuck to smashing power pole insulators.
Wee piwakawaka - they pop in to the house from time to time, check the place for spiders etc then flit back out the door. According to maori custom the fantail coming into house presages a death or something. Never has though.. Delightful. Also had a bellbird in the trees here recently - beautiful song. Both very welcome little visitors.
Ive always thought it was more likely the wee fellas popped into whare AFTER someone had died....the week at home before being buried would tend to attract flies which may attract wee fantails????Quote:
Originally Posted by mudgripz
funniest interaction with them was 30 plus years ago when we had one of those cicada years,there was that many of them you nearly needed earmuffs outside...the birdlife was fantastic all scoffing big far green cicadas...seeing fantail dealing with them was hilarious as cicada were so big they had to peck them to bits....
If anyone can tell me how to post a 30 sec video without having to resort to Youtube, let me know. Keen to post it cos its gone viral on a FB page Im on.
"In Māori mythology, the fantail was responsible for the presence of death in the world. Maui, thinking he could eradicate death by successfully passing through the goddess of death, Hine-nui-te-po, tried to enter the goddess’s sleeping body through the pathway of birth. The fantail, warned by Maui to be quiet, began laughing and woke Hine-nuite-po, who was so angry that she promptly killed Maui."
So that's how Maui met his end.
We have noticed we hardly see a piwakawaka around here lately but have a heap of tuis hanging around -which we rarely used to see here.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudgripz
so he was trying to enter her birth canal while she slept!!!!!!!!!! nope nothing dodgy about that.no wonder the piwakawaka started laughing.Quote:
Originally Posted by zimmer
THANKYOU for posting that bit of folklore/legend
if you havent satthrough the kids movie MOANA ...do so,it caused a fair bit of controversy when it came out as Maui was depicted as "pacifica" not Maori....but as a 27th generation K1W1 personally I reckon they did it justice.
I looked for an "I love it" button.Quote:
Originally Posted by Husky1600
I have a pic somewhere of a fantail sitting atop my flat screen TV. We had the doors open for airing and in he came to say hello.
He left me a little something on the back of the TV, but not big enough to dent my pleasure from the visit.
I HAD photo on phone of one sitting on my shotgun barrel...probably still on there but phone dropped into silage pit years ago.....still there or in cows puku somewhere.
