NATURE-LOVERS' FEAST.
SOUTHERN BEAUTY SPOT. Nature-lovers who travel on the new road up the Eglinton Valley, in the Southern Lakes district, will find much to interest them. The beech forest, says the Southland Times, is rich in bin! life, pigeons, bellbirds, tuis, and smaller birds such as bush wrens, fantails, and tomtits being plentiful. The friendly little robin is also very much in evidence. He delights in human companionship, and will take up his post on lunch 'basket or swag within a tew inches of a picnicker. An occasional kaka is seen, and on Lake Gunn there arc blue mountain duck. On the more open spaces of the vaHey Paradise duck may be oljserved in large numbers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21137, 21 March 1932, Page 10
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117NATURE-LOVERS' FEAST. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21137, 21 March 1932, Page 10
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