Feathered Friends

Last Sunday, when I went to look at the building progress a couple of wonderful things happened. Firstly, Crimson Rosellas are not uncommon here and they look spectacular when the swoop through trees. However on Sunday I turned the car off the road and through the first approach road and at least 50 of them took off from the field and flew into the adjoining forrest. 50! Awesome.

Then, when I was leaving I returned down the same track and sitting on a fence was a Kingfisher - very neat.

Add those to the harriers which frequent the area and its all adding up to an ornithologists delight.

Build Report (2)

Last Sunday things had moved on, but not much. The actual site is now flat and marked out with the 'footprint' but I don't think you'll be able to see it on this photo.

These look like missile silos but they're water tanks.










Now the bad news; the local Council have decided the building site goes directly over the eartthquake fault line so I have to get resource consent as well as building consent. The builders don't think its a major but I think the fault isn't where the Council say it is!