Cicada calling, summer is here

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Cicada calling, summer is here

Postby Neil Fitzgerald » Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:26 pm

Feels a bit like summer in Hamilton today, especially with the first cicada I've heard calling around here this spring. It flew before I could get close enough to id it.
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Re: Cicada calling, summer is here

Postby Steps » Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:52 am

Cabbage tree has flowered early with its aromma floating around, and noticed the NZ Pohutukawa springing into flower out west Auckland last weekend, and here a couple days later
All tradtional signs of an early and long summer
Kakariki aready sitting on their 3rd batch of eggs this season.
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