Lost

Today I had an animated conversation with a squeaky piwakawaka and was nearly bowled over by a kamikaze kereru.

The daily presence of these birds makes all the more poignant Hugh Wilson's observation that "the peninsula was once home to moa, kiwi, eagle, pelican, kokako, saddleback, kaka, kakariki, robin, fernbird, mohua, piopio and a host of other birds too numerous to number." (Land very fertile, eds. C Atkinson, D. Gregory)

All the more reason for cherishing those birds we have left...