Which fowl species do you assume is the most important attraction to guests of your lodge (please solely title one species)?
Tui (Prosthemderma novaeseelandiae).
What’s the title of your lodge, and since when has your lodge been working?
Twin Waters Lodge, working since 1993.
How greatest to journey to your lodge?
Most friends are self-drive, however we are able to accumulate from the bus in Collingwood if crucial.
What sort of providers – apart from lodging and meals – does your lodge provide to visiting birders?
Gardens across the Lodge abound with native bush birds. we’ve got a fowl feeder for the nectar feeders (principally tui and bellbirds). Carried out bush walks within the night can be found.
Swallow and swallow chicks
What makes your lodge particular?
The distinctive location amongst historical totara timber (some greater than 700 years previous) and different native forest, and the proximity of the seashore with its waders and different seabirds.
Pied Oystercatcher
Pied Oystercatcher, Bar-tailed Godwit, Caspian Tern
What are the ten – 20 most fascinating birds that your lodge presents good probabilities to see?
- Tui
- New Zealand Bellbird (Korimako)
- Banded Rail (Moho prereru – current, however hardly ever seen as it’s fugitive)
- New Zealand Fernbird (as above)
- Native Pigeon (Kereru)
- Welcome Swallow (Warou) (nest on the entrance verandah)
- Gray Warbler (Riroriro)
- Shining Cuckoo (Pipiwharauroa)*
- Little Blue Penguin (Korora) – principally seen at evening
- Native Kingfisher (Kotare)
- Fantail (Piwakawaka)
- Shags (cormorants) together with Pied Shag (Karuhiruhi), Black Shag (Kawau pu), Little Shag (Kawau paka), and Noticed Shag (Kawau tikitiki) – we word that the title of our native village is Pakawau – actually the house of the shag.
- Royal Spoonbill (Kotuku ngutupapa)*
- White Heron (Kotuku)
- White-faced Gray Heron
- Bar-tailed Godwit*
- Pied and Variable Oystercatcher
- White-fronted and black-fronted Terns
- Caspian Tern*
- Black-backed Gull
- Purple-billed Gull
- Australasian Gannet – there’s a colony on the finish of Farewell Spit.
Be aware that birds with * are migratory. Most besides the White Heron and Spoonbills could be seen throughout summer time (November to February).
Shining Cuckoo
Australasian Gannet
What’s the greatest time to go to your lodge, and why?
Summer time and fall – November to March – climate is healthier and migratory species are current.
Kotuku
Is your lodge concerned in conservation efforts? If sure, please describe them.
We function a inexperienced program with intensive recycling and reuse. Our energy is generally photo voltaic with grid backup. We produce our personal greens and eggs.
Fantail
What different options are you able to give to birders serious about visiting your lodge?
Deliver binoculars. Guarantee you could have solar safety and bug safety (sandflies could be annoying).
Kereru
Do you could have actions for non-birders? If that’s the case, please describe.
Sure – excursions of Farewell Spit can be found, with pickup close to the lodge, There’s numerous dramatic surroundings shut by (however driving distance), notably Wharariki Seashore (the seashore on Home windows 10).
Noticed Shag
If any reader of 10,000 Birds is serious about staying at your lodge, how can they greatest contact you?
Via our site: www.twinwaters.nz.