Bird counting day

 An annual bird count that anyone can do. Over a set few days in June you pick one hour and go somewhere and count birds.

We set ourselves up the yard on a lovely sunny winter morning and saw the usual suspects: sparrows, blackbirds, silver eyes, gulls, tui, fantails, starlings. The week before we had our first visit from a small flock of Australian eastern rosellas. Blown over the Tasman Sea, like other Australian birds, they're reasonably common in some parts of the country.