There is a lovely tui hopping around in the tree just outside the open door, about two metres from where I’m sitting. It doesn’t seem too bothered by my presence. I haven’t seen a tui in many years. This living on a hill lark has its benefits!
I love that little white collar ruff they have going on. Very stylish.
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Over on his LJ and Xenodochion, Matt M discusses the Justice Therapy industry:
“This Justice Therapy industry makes it personal, it makes it about “getting the verdict we need”, it makes it about dragging the people who hurt you through court so that you can get some vague sense of closure. It is wrong on so many levels.”
I’m not entirely convinced that it is appropriate to call this an ‘industry’ – my instinct is to locate the cause here in systemic factors and broader cultural trends – but it’s a great piece. Go check it out. A reply is going into the bubbling stew of ‘blog posts I will write real soon now’.
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Also, Buffy fans who don’t read my LJ will really seriously want to check out this link. Not kidding.
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The tui was named the Parson bird by the first European missionaries – the ‘ruff’ thing.
Living on a hill/near bush is fantastic for birds :). I regularly get to see Tuis, last week a fantail ate bugs for a while right outside my bedroom window (on scruffy vines about a metre away!) and on Monday I got to see two (2! Previous record is a mere 1!) Kereru just hanging out on the line at the railway station in the valley. Tui wins though, because of the song.
I’m pretty sure the only reason you haven’t been seeing tuis is because you haven’t been in NZ. Both of my recent central city-ish dwellings have had regular visits from tuis. Usually they chase away the smaller birds, the bullying brutes! You should see the fat mofos pecking at sparrows etc. It’s harsh.
nah, bro, I hadn’t seen a tui for years even before I left NZ. They just didn’t seem to hang out in Brooklyn.