Tui In The Garden
It's that time of year again when the cherries and kowhai are in flower and our garden is full of tui getting drunk on nectar and chasing each other about with the males constantly puffing themselves up and singing, putting on a display for the females. We often have 30 or 40 tui in the garden at a time fillling the air with their beautiful resonant notes and intermittent squawks. It's my favorite time of year with so much fresh colour in the garden and the constant activity of the tuis as they fly back and forth between the cherries and the kowhai with the occasional one stopping off to use our birdbath.
They are amazing agile flyers and often when we're out in the garden at this time of year a pair of tui will swoop down and you hear the rush of their wings as they zip past within half a meter of you.
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