meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
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This wee fellow moved from tree to tree beside me as I walked this morning, wonderful to seei 🥰

#birds #birdwatching #kingfisher #kotare #peekaboo

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meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
352 followers · 1744 posts · Server mastodon.nz

I saw this kingfisher a number of times today, well hidden in the branches of the gum tree.

Sky had a lovely time trying to engage in play with a Huntaway cross who was Frisbee fixated.

#kingfisher #kotare #walking #walkies #dogsofmastodon #grateful #gratitude

Last updated 1 year ago

meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
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Two different gum trees with two different draw cards - the first looked stunning with the scattered clouds in the background, the second one has a darling kōtare in the branches - my favourite 😍

#dailywalk #scenery #kotare #kingfisher

Last updated 1 year ago

meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
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today was the second time ever that I have seen two where I walk, both at the same time 🥰😍🤩

I quite often see one but two is double the thrill.

#dailywalk #kotare #kingfisher

Last updated 1 year ago

meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
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Another very beautiful morning walk. A was one of the first birds seen today, my favourite 😍

#dailywalk #photo #dogsofmastodon #photography #kotare #kingfisher #grateful

Last updated 1 year ago

meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
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@NorCal_Lynne I have had two separate people tag me in photos of kingfishers today!

#kotare #kingfisher #myhappyplace

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meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
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Low tide, lots of kingfishers enjoying plenty of kai, putting on a great show.

#kotare #birdwatching #walking

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Heather · @HeatherInNZ
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I love this kōtare mural on the side of my local dairy. Cheers me up every time I walk past.

#art #streetart #kotare

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Bjorn Idle · @BjornIdle
1026 followers · 6946 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

This not the actual bird I can hear outside in the park just now, but it is one of these - a Kotare, or Sacred Kingfisher. 5 or 6 short "kek"-like calls one after another.

I'm used to hearing them out there in the Spring rather than the Autumn, but I'll take it as a win anyway!

This pic from one of the wetland reserves in Christchurch

#kingfisher #sacredkingfisher #kotare #Birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon

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Bruce Buckman · @BruceBuckman
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Just got out of the car & heard the faint but distinctive “grr grr grr” of kōtare chicks from above me in the bird’s burrow. So all those skinks going in the hole are clearly doing the job & the chicks are growing.

#kotare #nzbirds

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Bruce Buckman · @BruceBuckman
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Going ... going ... gone

#nzbirds #birds #kotare

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Bruce Buckman · @BruceBuckman
89 followers · 43 posts · Server mastodon.nz

Spare a thought for the difficulties of personal grooming when your main tool is a beak.

#birds #nzbirds #kotare

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Bruce Buckman · @BruceBuckman
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I was watching the two kōtare from the front door when one of them looked down at the driveway and suddenly swooped. It landed in front of a startled female blackbird that was busy smashing a snail in its shell, stole the snail from the blackbird and flew back into the tree where it finished the job of smashing the shell away before swallowing the snail. Meanwhile the blackbird stood there, with the best bird impression of "WTF?" I've seen.

#theftfromabove #birds #nzbirds #kotare

Last updated 2 years ago

meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
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Bruce Buckman · @BruceBuckman
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Down. The. Hatch.

#birds #kingfisher #kotare

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Bruce Buckman · @BruceBuckman
64 followers · 8 posts · Server mastodon.nz

When the skies are no longer friendly

#nzbirds #kotare

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meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
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@BruceBuckman wow, what a show that sounds!
❤️

#kotare #kingfisher

Last updated 2 years ago

meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
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@enzo got me at 😍

#kotare

Last updated 2 years ago

meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
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@Essjax I have taken so many distant photos with my phone, their silhouette is also so styly 🤩
We could be the fan club 😁

#kotare

Last updated 2 years ago

meganisalanis · @meganisalanis
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@JoBrownWorker a favourite of mine too. I got very excited a few months back counting 8 in a single tree and over 30 during my walk!
Th most I had ever seen prior to this was 2 at once.

#kingfisher #kotare #birdlife #nature

Last updated 2 years ago