[mossum]

we quite like this site as we are into twitching :D

http://www.nzbirds.com/birds/index.html

its a pretty good site - & you can listen to some native & non native birdsong .

vic x

[Moorf]

The magpies sound so different out here - they sound like old modems - v. strange!! Nice though. And the fantails are gorgeous - they flit around in front of you collecting the insects that you kick up (I thought they were just friendly but no, like dogs, they just see humans and think fooooood!).

[zardell]

I really enjoyed that site and listening to the birdsong.......thanks Vic.

Our house backs onto open fields and not being used to that, when we first moved in the birdsong used to wake me every morning (got used to it now and sleep through it)

Now, I can imagine what it will be like waking up to the song if a tui !

Julie

xx

[willsken]

Nice site. Sat listening to the bird song and I'm getting funny looks off people! :D

[Debbie P.]

Yes, great site, thanks. Really beats listening to the traffic thundering along outside my office window!

Now must stop dreaming and get back to work!

Debbie

[bevsere]

I really love the NZ birds. Mind you, I loved the UK birds too and miss them.

The Tuis around us really have some fantastic songs and noises. Our elderly neighbour encourages them with sugar water & there are plenty of native trees around to attract them. They have two voice boxes, hence all the clicks and clacks mixed in with bord song. They are quite good mimics too. There is one scallywag that can sound just like a phone ringing.

I could spend hours watching the fantails - so could our cats, especially when the fantails come into the house and start their flipping and flopping loop the loop flights in search of insects.

Then there are the little waxeyes that get tiddly in the crab apple tree and the really tiny riflemen that you find up by the lakes here. Or the sound of the bellbirds in the bush.

Even those right cheeky Keas make me laugh, depsite their tendancy to tear apart the windscreen wipers. We have them up at our local ski-field Rainbow. I think those parrots are ace.