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January 2007
Happy New Year everyone. Thanks to
Northpower, we can again bring you the latest news from the Recovery
Centre this year.
General update… Plenty of young birds are still being brought
into the Centre. We have kiwi chicks, pigeons, penguins, harrier
hawks and many others. We also have some pheasant chicks, so if
anyone wants to give these birds a home and raise them, let us know.
Thanks to the Whananaki Holiday Park
we now have a new picnic table for our visitors to sit at. We
are still looking for one more picnic table and two bench seats;
please contact us if you can help.
At this time of the year there are lots of very young Penguins
around the beaches, if you find one, please give the Centre a call
before removing it from the beach. NEVER pick up a penguin and place
it back into the water, if you do this they will swim out and drown,
this goes for both young and old ones.
The Bayer Web Cams are doing a very good job. Visitors from overseas
are telling us they looked at our website and decided to visit us.
This just demonstrates the power of the internet; it has the ability
to reach people from all around the world.
Correction… In the December column there was a statement that
read we had been “working hard on organisational changes to obtain
charitable status and become an Incorporated Society” – this was not
correct. The original statement had been changed by our proof
reader. The Centre has been an Incorporated Society with charitable
status for many years. Every now and then, changes are made to the
way Incorporated Society’s are run, when this happens, it can create
a lot of paperwork and it takes time to make the changes. Sorry for
any confusion this may have created.
Resident birds… The two little blue penguins now have their
nice ‘blue’ feathers and cute white fronts. Over the last few days
we have started training them to swim and eat while in the pool. We
hold off feeding them until we get quite a few members of the public
around so we can share the delight of watching them eat and swim.
They are still eating plenty of fresh fish and pretending they are
starved.
Woof-Woof the tui has been the star attraction as usual, there is
nothing like seeing people walk away from the Centre with smiles on
their faces.
Morris the myna greets people when they get out of their cars in the
parking area. As soon as one lot of visitors get to the top by the
buildings, he heads back down to the car park to get ready for the
next lot.
We also now have a pet starling who has taken over from Morris and
lands on the visitors; Robyn has named him Smokey the Bandit.
Visitors… Once again it was great to see some of the many
friends that we have made over the years return to say hello; a good
number were visitors from overseas. Whangarei and the wider
Northland area have so much to offer visitors but I feel the area is
not promoted as it should be. I make a point of asking visitors what
are they doing while visiting Whangarei and you would be surprised
how little they know about the area. There must be someway we can
get together and share ideas that will attract visitors. More
visitors can only be good for Whangarei.
A reminder that if you are planning to visit the Centre, it’s a good
idea to phone us the day before; that way we can make sure someone
is around. Robert Webb |
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