Category: birds
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Use all your senses!
I belong to a lovely group of kid-lit writers. Today, Saturday, they play a Today Game. Use the following: Today I saw… Today I felt(touch)… Today I heard… Today I smelled(olfactor.).. Today I tasted… Walking my walk this morning I used all the senses! Here is what I experienced: Today I saw some strange feathers […]
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Silent Sunday: Rosella
Rain and a lone Rosella in a tree! From my front door. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_rosella The eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius) has become naturalised in New Zealand.[2] By the 1970s the population, probably originally from cage escapees, was strongly established throughout Auckland, Northland, and the far north, extending into west Waikato, as far south as Kawhia and Te Kuiti, and east to […]
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#SoCS Feb. 22/2020: animal sounds
Linda at gave the following promp. Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “animal sounds.” Write about the sounds animals make and how you experience them. Have fun! Magpies! I heard their clear songs in the distance and came around the corner, saw the two Magpies; danger was my first reaction, I didn’t […]
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Blogging from A-Z: Letter T
TEAPOT/TEEPOT TRAIN/TREIN TOMATO/TAMATIE TWO/TWEE New Zealand names: TUI http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/tui#bird-sounds Tūī are unique (endemic) to New Zealand and belong to the honeyeater family, which means they feed mainly on nectar from flowers of native plants such as kōwhai, puriri, rewarewa, kahikatea, pohutukawa, rātā and flax. Occasionally they will eat insects too. They are important pollinators of many […]
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Blogging from A-Z: Letter P
PAUA SHELL PEACOCK PUKEKO PAUA SHELL I asked my son to send me a Paua Shell while still in South Africa. He sent me two beautiful shells. I wanted to explain how life is, just like the shell with all the rough sediments on it. We are always polishing our lives. As soon as we […]
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Look out! Monday Finish the Story October 26, 2015
Vultures! Finish the story begins with: “I watched the vulture looking at me hungrily as I lay on the ground bleeding and injured.” “Shoo, shoo, leave me alone” My voice is only croaking. The vulture flies away. I can’t exactly remember what happened to me. My thoughts are blurred by pain and I feel like […]
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Another duck tale… FFfAW week of 05-13-2015
Welcome ! 13th Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers Week of 5-13-2015 https://flashfictionforaspiringwriters.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/fffaw-week-of-05-13-2015/ Duck’s eye of few: The river is full after days of heavy rain. The duck family escaped the flood at the moment. They are looking for a way out. Suzy duck, told this family to come and live with them in a quiet […]
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Lone pigeon : FFfAW week of 4-22-2015
For more information on the challenge visit : https://flashfictionforaspiringwriters.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/fffaw-week-of-4-22-2015/ LONE PIGEON The train gone. The lonely pigeon waiting for the next one. I sat waiting for 1:05 am train to start the home journey from Wellington back to Upper Hutt. The train doors open, a message inside saying: No eating or drinking inside. A pigeon came […]
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