FEATHERED SONGSTERS.
Bv F.RIC DRIVER, Settlement Road, Clcvedon (ago 13.) Original.
'A nice, crisp morning! Yes, the ground is wearing its white mantle of frost. I tfish we didn't have to get up. Not so with tho birds though. They are all singing away as if their throats will burst. Through the day wo hear grey warblers trilling their plaintive little sontr and sometimes a tui chimes his bell.' , k In the spring these tuis come down from the bush, which is about two miles awav, to some kowhais growing along the river bank. There they stay for about a month feasting on honey procured from (he kowhai flowers. I often used to hear them chiming their little bells as I passed 011 my way to school. On their return journey I often see and hear them in a clump of wattles near our house. I think spring and the tuis are not far off now, as I see the little candles aglow on -the end of the pir.e branches.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)
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170FEATHERED SONGSTERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)
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