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Ellen Hoy

@estuaryviews

I live at Southshore Christchurch and enjoy watching and studying the godwits. I can be found at the estuary most days. I also write and draw.

 Christchurch City, New Zealand
Joined March 2018
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🎁Forget boring gifts. Surprise your husband with Feet Slippers—and have your camera ready!

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Un velero estaba incendiándose y apareció un héroe en moto de agua e hizo esto:
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E20 back in the hood. Southshore Christchurch NZ.
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Some of the Banded Dotterels I encountered today.
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First of our banded godwits home for the summer. 3RYYY. Banded Avon Heathcote Estuary Christchurch NZ back in 2009. So around 20 years old. Welcome home.
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And here's out beautiful little Black Robin, winner of Bird Of The Year. Congratulations.
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Young Piwakawaka watching me.
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White faced heron
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Horseshoe Lake
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A few shots of my garden birds yesterday.
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Look at This poor Curlew With a broken leg and Still Able to Feed himself. Amazing But Sad To watch. Today Dungarvan Co. Waterford Ireland.
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5/24 Plateau chick airing out his nest, today. There are only a few days left to submit a name for ~ Name the Chick competition 2026 ~ and a chance to win some great prizes. The theme is Habitat Restoration doc.govt.nz/nature/native-an… AllAboutBirds.org/Albatross
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Kākāriki karaka parents produce 55 chicks in breeding programme

Kākāriki karaka parents produce 55 chicks in breeding programme

They've only been together since 2024, but Kākāriki karaka orange fronted parakeet parents Nacho and Trixie have already produced 55 chicks, 33 of those this season alone.

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Bird collects fur from a sleeping fox to build a nest..
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Swallow Builds a Mud House on Wall
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The Lonely Camp

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A Laysan albatross banded in 1956 laid an egg at the age of seventy-four, hatched it, and then came back the following November to do it again. Her band number is Z333. The world knows her as...

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Wintering over godwits at Southshore
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In Scotland, new building regulations will soon require the inclusion of “swift bricks” a simple addition that provides nesting spaces and supports birds living alongside people in urban environment
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@peaklass1Apr 11
Why the silence on this @networkrail? In the face of increasing public anger? These birds will have travelled around 14,000 miles when they return to their nesting holes - only to find them blocked up. Nature is increasingly squeezed into ever-shrinking spaces, forced to fit around our sprawling network of transport and housing and commerce. Please act NOW to rectify your thoughtless actions! theguardian.com/environment/…
Anger as swifts’ nesting holes in Derbyshire rail viaduct ‘blocked up’

Anger as swifts’ nesting holes in Derbyshire rail viaduct ‘blocked up’

Campaigners say birds could die trying to access ancestral nests that were sealed during rail refurbishment

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