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Birds are very approachable in New Zealand [probably because 20% of bread sold here is used to feed them]
Go to wildlife parks and wild Ducks, Geese and Swans run for their lives "towards you"

Here's me sitting and enjoying the view with one of the locals at Kaikoura NZ


And me feeding a wild swan from the car window

And a wild duck

We all need to give a little back to nature [It makes the world a better place]

 

I forgot my mug shot.........

 

Mimilan, Your man Kerry must be a fan of the neighbour looking over the fence in the old Home Improvement TV show .

 

That's so cool but...Bread is SOOOO bad for birds.

 

My dog, Hank and I playing on the ice in Feb, 2020. It was COLD that day. We had a blast.

 

In the fall, the sun must be quite right and they can see through my house and think they have a clear path to fly through. I've sat in the house and heard that BONK a few times in a morning alone. Sometimes I look and have found a few dead ones over the years. Most of the time they get up, shake it off and fly away.

 

Applying some type of sticker on windows helps avoid b collisions...I'm a big-time bird nerd from way back.

 

I get most of my strikes in the winter when there are large flocks of birds at my feeders. I tried using stickers and blinds which helped but moving the feeders a little further from the house seemed to work the best. It gives them some room to scatter when the hawks dive in. I've also been a bird and nature nut since I was little. My son is a Naturalist/Ranger and does a lot of work with birds of prey.

 

Nice load of catfish - CHECK
Stepside Chevy PU - CHECK
Nice PU bed patina - CHECK
PT Yellow Pine bed floor - CHECK
Fishing with 12 pack Orange Crush - FAIL

 

You missed the gun rack in the back glass

 

That makes me like your truck even more !!! I love it.
Now, about that Orange Crush....?

 

Dry county lol

 

Yup it's a lot of fun I mostly work with American Kestrels, Red Shouldered Hawks, Red Tailed Hawks and Northern Saw Whet Owls. I run several research programs where we are capturing these birds, taking a bunch of measurements and banding them (leg band with a special number so we can track the bird if recaptured) then they are released where they are captured.


Red Shouldered Hawk


American Kestrel that I banded in 2018 and recaptured again in 2019

Red Tailed Hawk

 

Veda & me jamming on ukuleles. HRP

 

Lemme guess, in that situation she’s the boss, right?


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Oh yeah! HRP

 

Must be that hot Italian temper.....

 

Ohh, I didn't know we could do fish. Here is me with a 7 and a 2 pound largemouth I recently caught.

 

But what about french fries? Drive around our beaches and you'll see seagulls becoming members of the extended family during picnics.

I've been told that bread isn't good for them....luckily white bread is less than 10% of NZ sales.

Every morning when we get up, there are sparrows and starlings lining up on our roof waiting to be fed. A couple of slices of bread crumbled up makes cheap enjoyable pets to have around.

If we don't feed them they raid our grape vine and fruit trees

Here's a photo of chickens ambushing an Orange tree

It's not quite a "Wilson" situation. Our neighbours are now use to our cars. Most Kiwis are quite private [but will keep an eye on your property if you're not home]
Quite often he will leave the keys and wallet in our daily driver overnight with no consequences.
Our garage is only for our toys not our daily driver.
Our property is up a long driveway off the street on a 1/4 acre lot. It is on the Cliff tops of Tauranga Harbour so we get nice views and privacy.
So when he pulls all the cars out for me to clean the garage, nobody on the street sees what is going on.
Here's the view we get


Right now NZ is in 100% lock down for 4 weeks, so it isn't too much suffering for us [Yet]

 

Beautiful!

 

I was asked to be a car show judge last summer.
They should've asked if I was biased to any certain car model........



Me and my high school sweetheart.
Together 48 years. Married the last 46.

 

This is our newest H.A.M.B.er, my son, Little Truckdoctor. We still have to fill out his profile page and do an introduction, but here he is.


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Does the boss (your wife) know about this?


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Of course! She was sitting there when we set up his account.


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34 Larry 81 yo today 78 yo in this shot. Only shot I have of my mug.

 

My 3 grandbabygirls were visiting over Spring Break and this one was pestering me in my study/computer room. I let her play with my camera to distract her from touching lots of things that weren't her business.
She got me........


And I got her back.......
(I call this photo "Big Trouble" and it only begins to describe the meaning of that. Ha Ha)
Cue the music for "If you see me coming, better step aside......"