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	<title>&#34;Sails&#34; Stewart Island Nature Blog</title>
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	<description>The Natural World of Stewart Island, NEW ZEALAND</description>
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		<title>Miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea) Miro is a common tree in our forests. Once known as Podocarpus ferrugineus,  it, as well as it&#8217;s close cousin Matai has been re classified to genus Prumnopitys. We have relitively very few mature Matai and only &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/05/miro-prumnopitys-ferruginea/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mistletoe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 20:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autumn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mistletoe (Ileostylus micranthus) Our local green mistletoe is quite common in our garden with around a dozen plants, but less so on Ulva where there are only two specimens on the paths I normally walk. One is on   a &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/05/mistletoe-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bird Counts</title>
		<link>http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/05/bird-counts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/?p=1937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bird Call Counts A couple of nights ago I spent almost 3 hours on Observation Rock recording Kiwi, Morepork and Weka calls for SIRCET. This is an ongoing program (I&#8217;ll spend several nights on the rock recording over the next month &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/05/bird-counts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Drought &amp; Robins</title>
		<link>http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/04/drought-robins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autumn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fungi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very Dry Summer We often define a drought on Stewart Island as 5 days without much rain, but this summer has been the driest and calmest I can remember in 43 years of living here. As best I can find &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/04/drought-robins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New DVD</title>
		<link>http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/04/new-dvd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DVD This post has been a long time coming, as I have been pre-occupied with producing our updated guest DVD. All our guests receive a short DVD as a memento of their time on the Island. I produce it myself using our &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/04/new-dvd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mill Creek Water Birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mill Creek Birds Just a few minutes stroll from the village centre, Mill Creek is a feeding and roosting area for several species. It&#8217;s quite tidal, and although low tide is a typical and perhaps visually unattractive &#8220;mud flat&#8221; these &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/04/mill-creek-water-birds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Harvest</title>
		<link>http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/03/autumn-harvest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autumn Harvest This time of year is always busy, what with trying to juggle our guest commitments with harvesting the vegetables and dodging the autumn weather. Well the weather wasn&#8217;t such a problem as we have had probably the best summer &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/03/autumn-harvest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Easter Orchids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easter Orchid, Earina autumnalis The arrival of our Easter or Autumn orchid signals the end of our orchid season. Earina autumnalis is one of our more spectacular, and by  far the most highly scented of our native orchids. In fact &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/03/easter-orchids/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Our Guests See Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Guests We enjoy our guests enormously, and have made some great friends with whom we regularly correspond. And in fact this blog was the result of a guests quite innocent question as to what the Island was like over &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/03/how-our-guests-see-us/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Terns</title>
		<link>http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/02/terns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local Terns Terns are regularly seen about Stewart Island, particularly the White Fronteds. These nest at various locations around the coast, with a moderate colony on a small islet on the south side of Ulva. We will see them fishing, &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/02/terns/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Insects &amp; Clouds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaf Roller Caterpillars There aren&#8217;t too many things that will eat our punga fronds (tree fern, Dicksonia squarrosa, Weki). But observers will notice that fronds can be rolled up, rather than in the elegant display we normally see. This is caused by &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/02/insects-clouds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parakeet Diet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minor Mystery Resolved We often have seen Parakeets feeding on Coprosma foetidissimaand wondered just what they were eating. Yesterday the mystery was resolved when I photographed a pair in quite a large C. foetidissima bush. On downloading and cataloguing the days photos I &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/02/parakeet-diet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Avian Predators</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Native Predators. We haven&#8217;t that many avian predators on Stewart Island and the incident with the Morepork below got me thinking about them. MorePork A couple of days ago on Ulva we noticed the pair of morepork mentioned in a &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/02/avian-predators/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fiordland Crested and other Penguins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crested Juvenile Penguin Correction to Post A couple of day ago Iris came across what I initially thought was a juvenile Fiordland Crested penguin along the Little River track. It was about 20 metres above the shore, just off the &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/02/fiordland-crested-and-other-penguins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Port William</title>
		<link>http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/01/port-william/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port William Walk Stewart Island is a walkers dream. And indeed with only around 28k of roads walking is the way to explore the island &#8220;up close and personal&#8221;. Yesterday I took Iris and some Japanese friends up to Port &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/01/port-william/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oystercatchers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fledging Black Oystercatchers observed on Ulva Island <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/01/oystercatchers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hebes &amp; Morepork</title>
		<link>http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/01/hebes-morepork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morepork Yesterday on Ulva we came across a pair of Morepork, New Zealands one remaining native owl. The pair &#8230;. I suspect an adult and a juvenile &#8230;. were roosting on a low branch. The juvenile kept very still, but &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/01/hebes-morepork/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Saddlebacks and Yellow Heads</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saddleback Feeding Saddleback feed primarily on insects, which they find both on the trunks and and amongst the foliage, and also often on the forest floor. They are unusual amongst birds in that their beak has sufficient opening strength to &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/01/saddlebacks-and-yellow-heads/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rata &amp; Parakeets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[White Rata, Yesterday I noticed that the White Rata (Meterosideros diffusa) vines in our entrance were in flower. White rata is a vine and often found almost smothering tree ferns and occasionally even larger trees.  The flowers are small, often &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/01/rata-parakeets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally&#8230;.. Rain This morning we woke to rain, after what the Southland Times tells us is the driest December on record. By my calculations we had just 13mm for the month. On Ulva it was like walking on cornflakes. We &#8230; <a href="http://sailsashore.co.nz/wordpress/2012/01/new-year/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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