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Was just outside having a smoke and heard this bird crash land and start flapping around on the ground. Maha got the trusty torch out and we spy a Tui in some distress on the ground. I went to pick it up, it was on its back flaping around. Finally managed to pick it up and put in a box in the hotwater cupboard. Ring the local vet who tells me I am speshhhal as not too many people can claim to have a Tui in their hotwater cupboard! He will keep!
His diagnosis, a pissed Tui, bring it down and I will look after it for you. We took it down to his clinic, and yes diagnosis confrimed this little sucker is off his chops for sure...LOL. He will ring us when the bird is sober, to come collect it and release back where we found it. Apparently they are territorial.
Small towns rock! Here is a vet that will care for a bird for free, make bad jokes about it and me :eek: and have music playing in his clinic to entice me back to the band!
Big Dave
22nd July 2008, 18:56
And then after that we can go down town and watch haircuts.
And then after that we can go down town and watch haircuts.
Watching hair cuts must be shit loads better than watching paint dry though doncha think?
Yes small towns rock. Big Dave is just jealous of our extra fingers :)
Meekey_Mouse
22nd July 2008, 19:05
Wow! You guys got to watch hair cuts and paint dry?! Heck... In my youth I got to watch the grass grow:confused:
:laugh:
slofox
22nd July 2008, 19:06
Was just outside having a smoke and heard this bird crash land and start flapping around on the ground. Maha got the trusty torch out and we spy a Tui in some distress on the ground. I went to pick it up, it was on its back flaping around. Finally managed to pick it up and put in a box in the hotwater cupboard. Ring the local vet who tells me I am speshhhal as not too many people can claim to have a Tui in their hotwater cupboard! He will keep!
His diagnosis, a pissed Tui, bring it down and I will look after it for you. We took it down to his clinic, and yes diagnosis confrimed this little sucker is off his chops for sure...LOL. He will ring us when the bird is sober, to come collect it and release back where we found it. Apparently they are territorial.
Small towns rock! Here is a vet that will care for a bird for free, make bad jokes about it and me :eek: and have music playing in his clinic to entice me back to the band!
Damn! I knew I shoulda checked that bird's ID........
T.W.R
22nd July 2008, 19:09
:crazy: pffft you're in a big town if you've got a local vet :bleh:
98tls
22nd July 2008, 19:11
Good on ya Mom,a good thing you do,wonder what flavour the little bugger was on?As for the small town knockers good on ya and i hope you encourage everyone you know to stay in the big smoke, leaves way more room for us which is just the way we like it.:shifty:
civil
22nd July 2008, 19:22
Wow! You guys got to watch hair cuts and paint dry?! Heck... In my youth I got to watch the grass grow:confused:
:laugh:
Just as well you got to master the skill and patience of watching something so slow when you were young, otherwise you would get so frustrated now watching your brother ride. :scooter:
Big Dave
22nd July 2008, 19:25
Yeah yeah - I know - I lived in Banjo city for 10 years.
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Meekey_Mouse
22nd July 2008, 19:34
Just as well you got to master the skill and patience of watching something so slow when you were young, otherwise you would get so frustrated now watching your brother ride. :scooter:
:clap: bling sent!!!
rottiguy
22nd July 2008, 19:35
I can only dream of watching my grass grow, got sheepies and some new lambs but grass go putt
Wow! You guys got to watch hair cuts and paint dry?! Heck... In my youth I got to watch the grass grow:confused:
:laugh:
oldrider
22nd July 2008, 19:39
I have always known that birds are the biggest pissheads! :mellow: John.
Grub
22nd July 2008, 19:47
OK, since nobody else has asked the obvious question .... WHAT did the Tui eat that got it pissed?
kickingzebra
22nd July 2008, 19:52
Small towns rock!
NosHit? you guys moved or something?!
Subike
22nd July 2008, 19:54
Good on ya Mom,a good thing you do,wonder what flavour the little bugger was on?As for the small town knockers good on ya and i hope you encourage everyone you know to stay in the big smoke, leaves way more room for us which is just the way we like it.:shifty:
agree 100%
Keep you big town, with your noise, polution, cages, Red lights law enforcement.....
Love my little town where on a warm summers motorcycles gather in droves to experiance the wonders of paridise.
Small towns rock!
FLYMO
22nd July 2008, 19:56
lucky the cops wernt around to breath test it
can ya be pissed and still fly????????wonder if c.a.a. was notifyed
icekiwi
22nd July 2008, 20:01
Yeah yeah - I know - I lived in Banjo city for 10 years.
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Hey Dude what do they call people who come from Wangi Wangi?
NosHit? you guys moved or something?!
No, Warkworth is small town most of the time. Some SOAP imports attempt to make this a suburb of Auckland, they dont suceed so well at grass roots level...LOL
Hi Jonno, hows things, hows Bron? Babies x 2 now?
Very small writing to avoid the off topic nazis...:blip:
OK, since nobody else has asked the obvious question .... WHAT did the Tui eat that got it pissed?
Who knows, though the vet says there is alot of old fruit lying around, hope he meant fruit you can eat, hate to think about old, fermented drag queens littering the place...LOL . Probably the over ripe tangelos in our back yard to be fair.
mstriumph
22nd July 2008, 20:27
it's nice having neighbours a couple of paddocks away ........ :sunny:
not that i don't LIKE people, but ....:innocent:
MadDuck
22nd July 2008, 20:29
Let Blackie eat that fruit too. Now that would make quite a cool video...
Black drunk pussy trying to catch drunk tui :laugh:
cs363
22nd July 2008, 20:31
Good on ya Mom for that small act of kindness - hope the Karma comes around and something good happens to you too!
Rollestonchick
22nd July 2008, 20:31
OK, since nobody else has asked the obvious question .... WHAT did the Tui eat that got it pissed?
lol i would like to know that too
it's nice having neighbours a couple of paddocks away ........ :sunny:
not that i don't LIKE people, but ....:innocent:
I remember running like hell down our at the time 300m driveway to turn off the irrigation I had forgotten about one morning in my summer dressing gown. It was a satin number and did not stay closed. What can I say, I needed to turn the water off.
Got back to the house to a phone message that asked if I was attempting to be some sort of super hero! I forgot the green houses were able to be seen by the neighbours :o
mstriumph
22nd July 2008, 20:34
isn't that one of those things you have to post piccys of before folk on here believe you?? :msn-wink:
Let Blackie eat that fruit too. Now that would make quite a cool video...
Black drunk pussy trying to catch drunk tui :laugh:
Dont even go there, the bloody cat is mental enough without getting her pissed to boot!...:killingme
Big Dave
22nd July 2008, 20:35
Hey Dude what do they call people who come from Wangi Wangi?
It rhymes with 'instead'.
98tls
22nd July 2008, 20:36
Wish one of these birds from Tui would land upside down on my back yard.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAmJEqBSBqI
ManDownUnder
22nd July 2008, 20:38
And then after that we can go down town and watch haircuts.
You can stay the hell out of Kumeu thanks... throwing gumboots is taken too...
kickingzebra
22nd July 2008, 20:53
Heh, no still a small town down here too, population increase of 25% expected within 2 and a half weeks ;) nearly tried to come early, but border patrol forced them back...
oldrider
22nd July 2008, 23:48
Hey mom, here's food for thought:
The nice part of living in a small town is
When you don't know what you are doing
Someone else always does! :slap: Cheers John.
Patch
23rd July 2008, 05:15
Don't think ur "small town" which be small for much longer.
I hear the next boat is not too far away.
DMNTD
23rd July 2008, 07:08
Black drunk pussy trying to catch drunk tui
Ahhhh thems were the days :wacko:
FJRider
23rd July 2008, 07:08
OK, since nobody else has asked the obvious question .... WHAT did the Tui eat that got it pissed?
Strange but true...the contents of the seed pods of FLAX bushes ferment in the sun. Often the culprit to tuis getting pissed. Have seen it down this way a few times.
mstriumph
23rd July 2008, 14:45
I remember running like hell down our at the time 300m driveway to turn off the irrigation I had forgotten about one morning in my summer dressing gown. It was a satin number and did not stay closed. What can I say, I needed to turn the water off. ............
drat - you have now TOTALLY stuffed your chances of ever being able to phone the snoopy neighbours and asking THEM to turn the water off .......
:doh:
scumdog
23rd July 2008, 14:53
agree 100%
Keep you big town, with your noise, polution, cages, Red lights law enforcement.....
Love my little town where on a warm summers motorcycles gather in droves to experiance the wonders of paridise.
Small towns rock!
What he says - Riviera of the South is as big a town as I'd like to live in.
(Even if it DOES have a vets T.W.R.!)
Devil
23rd July 2008, 15:01
For those in a big town (i.e. Auckland). You can take sick/injured birds to Sylvia Durrant, 1/13 Montgomery Ave, Rothesay Bay. 0-9-478 8819
She will take birds and care for them for free, but best you make a donation! She does far too much work for the community and can always use money for food for the birds.
ManDownUnder
23rd July 2008, 15:07
For those in a big town (i.e. Auckland). You can take sick/injured birds to
I thought Dan was the man for them - he likes his birds a bit crippled...
jafar
23rd July 2008, 15:27
Yes small towns rock. Big Dave is just jealous of our extra fingers :)
You live up the heads don't ya:whistle: :dodge:
scumdog
23rd July 2008, 15:37
You live up the heads don't ya:whistle: :dodge:
'heads' - ain't that Naval for toilet??
Maha
23rd July 2008, 15:43
Have ya'self a ball in a Small Town!
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jafar
23rd July 2008, 15:46
'heads' - ain't that Naval for toilet??
Thats the 'head' . Different but not.
Term came from the olde square rigged sailing ships , they used to have a figure ( usually a head ) right up front on the bow of the boat. Twas the place to be to drop the turds in the sea :whistle:
You'd only pee to windward once :lol:
Swoop
23rd July 2008, 16:22
can ya be pissed and still fly????????wonder if c.a.a. was notifyed
You'd be surprised...
Talking with a flyer some time ago... "do you know why these navigation cards are laminated in plastic!??? "errr, nope" "So you can do lines on them!" - proceeds to imitate snorting a line of coke...:blank:
For those in a big town (i.e. Auckland). You can take sick/injured birds to Sylvia Durrant, 1/13 Montgomery Ave, Rothesay Bay. 0-9-478 8819
She will take birds and care for them for free, but best you make a donation! She does far too much work for the community and can always use money for food for the birds.
Damn right! Mum has visited Sylvia in the past... Talk about a menagerie of creatures there!
drat - you have now TOTALLY stuffed your chances of ever being able to phone the snoopy neighbours and asking THEM to turn the water off .......
:doh:
When their babies were growing up they used to call me the bloody neighbour! Email from them always came addressed to the bloody neighbour. When they moved the name changed to the ex-bloody neighbour...LOL We still remain really good friends to this day. They kind of got used to me :blip:
FJRider
23rd July 2008, 18:12
So how goes it with the Tui ??? sorry to get off topic...
So how goes it with the Tui ??? sorry to get off topic...
Just got off the phone from the Vet. The Tui is ready to come home and be released. Will pick it up this afternoon and set it free. Will take a pic too and post it up.
Further to above. As the weather is most certainly going to be total and absolute shite here for the next couple of days at least, the vet does not want the Tui released today. Instead, he has authorised us to take it home (it is illegal to cage a native bird apparently) with instructions on feeding etc, until the weather clears.
He says it will sing! I hope it does not wake when most Tui's do up here. That would be about half an hour before sunrise...LOL
Keep you all posted.
jafar
26th July 2008, 16:50
Further to above. As the weather is most certainly going to be total and absolute shite here for the next couple of days at least, the vet does not want the Tui released today. Instead, he has authorised us to take it home (it is illegal to cage a native bird apparently) with instructions on feeding etc, until the weather clears.
He says it will sing! I hope it does not wake when most Tui's do up here. That would be about half an hour before sunrise...LOL
Keep you all posted.
Feed it some 'tui's" for Maha's birthday :clap:
Feed it some 'tui's" for Maha's birthday :clap:
Twas the fermented stuff that got it in trouble in the first place...LOL
It likes banana, I mash it a bit for him and some honey water. Friggen dumb thing when I fed it this afternoon. I am putting the food and lolly water at one end so he can get to the floor and eat. No, this silly thing was hanging upside down on the perch to eat and drink :lol:
Tui's are mental birds. :clap:
jafar
26th July 2008, 17:20
Twas the fermented stuff that got it in trouble in the first place...LOL
It likes banana, I mash it a bit for him and some honey water. Friggen dumb thing when I fed it this afternoon. I am putting the food and lolly water at one end so he can get to the floor and eat. No, this silly thing was hanging upside down on the perch to eat and drink :lol:
Tui's are mental birds. :clap:
Well @ least he is able to get there for marks b'day:clap:
Today was the day, we have blue skies, no wind or rain and it is time for the little Tui to be let go!
Took the cage outside, wow it got really excited! Opened the cage door and stood back. It sat there for a moment then heads up and flew strainght out of the cage and up in to the Totara's at the back of the section.
Great feeling!
Hope it stays off the old tangelos!
sonicjett
28th July 2008, 10:34
gd on ya mom - ya did tha right thing - dnt take any notice of knockers. We got tuis here for 1st time in decades. Gd :2thumbsupstuff.
Swoop
28th July 2008, 10:54
this silly thing was hanging upside down on the perch to eat and drink :lol:
Tui's are mental birds. :clap:
Sure it wasn't a bat?:shifty:
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