It's amazing what you hear at 1.05am

[Ms Piggy]

I can hear a Morepork! It's really quite loud, must be close by. I live close to a whole lot of trees. :2thumbsup

MOREPORK (Ruru) Ninox novaeseelandiae
Size: 29cm.
Status: Common.
Range: Throughout main islands and many off-shore and outlying islands.
Habitat: Native and exotic forests, also small patches of modified forest and exotic trees.
Food: Insects, small mammals, birds and lizards.
Voice: “Morepork” sometimes repeated and prolonged, and a variety of screeches and mewing calls.
Breeding: October-November. Two to three white eggs.
General: Wherever you live in New Zealand you’re almost bound to hear this little owl calling at night during the summer, provided there are enough trees around. It has the eerily silent flight that only owls can achieve. Fully protected.

I think I need to go to bed now.

[Waylander]

Hehe Owls are cool. All I hear are drunken idiots yelling as they walk home. Nights like this I wish I had a tank for my paintball gun...

[Ixion]

How nice. :yeah: :yeah:

We have one (or more, though have only seen one) here, in the middle of Auckland.

The plaintive call of the morepork is one of those endearing icons of New Zealand.

I love to take a night ride out into the silent countryside, stop the bike on a quiet hilltop, and just look and listen to the night.

[babyB]

How nice. :yeah: :yeah:

We have one (or more, though have only seen one) here, in the middle of Auckland.

The plaintive call of the morepork is one of those endearing icons of New Zealand.

I love to take a night ride out into the silent countryside, stop the bike on a quiet hilltop, and just look and listen to the night.

got 1 here in west aucks too
lol dont wanna take me with ya?? lol tis a cool thing to do

[James Deuce]

Mmmm morepork.

I have a lovely recipe.

[Motu]

It's always nice to have a Morepork in the neighbourhood,but getting less common in the city.One night,when I lived in the bush around Titirangi,I was out wandering at night,dragging a piece of rope I found along behind - I turned around and saw a Morepork chasing the rope like a kitten,it was freaky...it was completely silent,just ghosting in and out as it swooped on the rope.I like em...

[Joni]

It's always nice to have a Morepork in the neighbourhood,but getting less common in the city.One night,when I lived in the bush around Titirangi,I was out wandering at night,dragging a piece of rope I found along behind - I turned around and saw a Morepork chasing the rope like a kitten,it was freaky...it was completely silent,just ghosting in and out as it swooped on the rope.I like em...

In Africa any form of owl is considered a blessing when they come into close proximaty to you... it is said, you will be blessed with wisdom and a long healthy life!

CSL: Heres hoping to that being true.
Motu: That morepork was so close to you Im sure we will help you celebrate you 100th... :msn-wink:

:2thumbsup

[Hitcher]

Mmmm morepork.

I have a lovely recipe.
They taste a bit like kiwi, but without that characteristic tang.

We've got about 6-8 moreporks around our place. They keep getting closer to the house...

[Sniper]

Hmmm, morepork. Who named them??

[wari]

WEll .. I ree-fuse to givin untill they say pleese .. :doobey:

COm-mon curtessy goesa loong way ... :yeah:

[Paul in NZ]

It's always nice to have a Morepork in the neighbourhood,but getting less common in the city.One night,when I lived in the bush around Titirangi,I was out wandering at night,dragging a piece of rope I found along behind - I turned around and saw a Morepork chasing the rope like a kitten,it was freaky...it was completely silent,just ghosting in and out as it swooped on the rope.I like em...

Um.... You were out late at night draggin' a piece of old rope.... No one else thinks this is odd? Walking your invisible dog? You really are a worry mate.

Not surprisingly we have a lot of the critters around our place too...

I walk Bo on the beach in the dark over winter. We see heaps of wild life, penguins, seals, rabbits (on the beach too), hedgehogs, mice, birds (lots birdies), Eels, baby flounder and other assorted fishes (in the creek)

Hmm.. A nice game rissotto?

Cheers

[bungbung]

Have you any idea how much old rope costs?

He had the luck to find an unattended piece and he was just taking it home.

[Ixion]

Have you any idea how much old rope costs?

He had the luck to find an unattended piece and he was just taking it home.

Seems natural enough to me. Those ropes are perverse brutes. No matter how much you tell them to get in behind and follow you, they will take off the bushes . You have to drag them along

I could do with some ropes, any idea where I can catch some. I don't mind dragging them home.

[wari]

HEmp rodes da best ... :doobey:

[Ixion]

HEmp rodes da best ... :doobey:


It is , indeed , for many purposes. It is very annoying that it can no longer be obtained..

[wari]

It is , indeed , for many purposes. It is very annoying that it can no longer be obtained..

I Gotta "supply" ... :doobey:

[Waylander]

They taste a bit like kiwi, but without that characteristic tang.

We've got about 6-8 moreporks around our place. They keep getting closer to the house...

So that explains it. no wonder you are the way you are Hitcher. Heh must have a fake one near by else I wouldn't be such a wise arse.

[Lou Girardin]

There's nothing like the sound of "More Pork" being whispered at 1.05 AM.

[ManDownUnder]

Hehe Owls are cool. All I hear are drunken idiots yelling as they walk home. Nights like this I wish I had a tank for my paintball gun...

of course if you dropped the last 4 words of that sentence it would be a WHOLE LOT MORE FUN :banana:

[Waylander]

of course if you dropped the last 4 words of that sentence it would be a WHOLE LOT MORE FUN :banana:
Guy in California tried that trick. Took the cops a few hours but they shot him. No thanks mate I'll stick with paintball.

[Paul in NZ]

There's nothing like the sound of "More Pork" being whispered at 1.05 AM.

Unless of course ...

1. You are buried up to the hilt.... And already committed your last reserves.

2. The voice whispering it, is deeper and more manly than yours.

Paul N