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#canterbury

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Jon Sullivan

Here's a baby wrybill spotted, and filmed, on the Ashley River by Canterbury birder Steve Attwood. Wrybills are specialists of NZ's braided rivers, with a beak bent sideways to reach invertebrates hiding under rocks. Baby wrybills are more like fluffy grey river rocks, except when they move.

(Steve has all manner of excellent bird encounters to explore on his #Flickr account.)

flic.kr/p/2r7AAbp
#nz #canterbury #birds #wrybill #BabyBirds #nature #rivers

FlickrNgutu pare - wrybill - Anarhynchus frontalisBy Steve Attwood
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tuban_muzuru

#music #canterbury

The philosopher Karl Popper divided things up into clocks (orderly) and clouds (chaotic)

Written by Dave Stewart, of Egg, Bruford, National Health, etc. Nourishing harmonies...

"From the Northern shores
And down the starlit corridors
The clouds are gathering again
I can feel the weather-clocks
humming in their cases
Soon we'll have to shelter from the rain"

youtu.be/DqBl7ruMLlw

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John Arnold

_The Evening Post_, 8 May 1925:
PERSONAL MATTERS
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Mr. C. N. #Orbell, one of the oldest and best-known residents of South #Canterbury, who died at his home, “The Levels,” #Timaru, on Tuesday evening, after a long illness, was born in 1841 at Essex, where he was educated. He came to New Zealand in the sailing ship Metropolis, in 1863, landing at Lyttelton. … He was interested in sport of all sorts. But it is in connection with his work as a sheep breeder that Mr. Orbell’s name will be best remembered. He and Mr. W. S. Davison were originators of the #Corriedale sheep, the most noted breed in New Zealand to-day, and if he had done nothing but this his name would be entitled to a place in the list of those who have rendered the Dominion signal service. Mr. Orbell married Miss Fergusson, a cousin to a former Governor of New Zealand—Sir James Fergusson—in 1879. He had five children—Mr. W. H. Orbell, Mr. C. I. Orbell, Mrs. Maurice Harper, and the Misses Orbell (two).
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news
See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrieda

Black-and-white photo: Corriedale sheep. Undated. Photographer unknown. Description: A group of six heavily fleeced sheep (one obscured behind the others) standing in a paddock (BrE field), viewed front-on at a slight angle to show the sheep’s right flanks. Citation: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 7. Ref: PAColl-6001-47. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23098270
#OnThisDay#OTD#PapersPast
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Dope Old Person

I meant to take more photos of my walk across #Canterbury but... Failed.

I walked from the train station along a new road, that meets up with the old footpath that I used to walk to work along. It crosses over the river where a couple of mills used to be, and then the path goes through the old part of the town. I rather missed living there while walking here in the early morning sun.

The river Stour in Canterbury as part of an old mill river. Lots of bushes and trees on the left, on the right of the river is a wall.
The river Stour in Canterbury as part of an old mill, green grass in foreground, houses in background, also trees, blue sky.
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