COLLECTING TUI

We've got six tui living in a bottle brush tree on our property.

                                      The bottle brush is an Australian tree -

"Callistemon is a genus of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae. The entire genus is endemic to Australia but widely cultivated in many other regions and naturalised in scattered locations. "  - Thank you Wikipedia. 

The flowers have a nectar that tui seem to like and the warm weather we are experiencing must be aiding the flowering.

The tui are pretty noisy but I like the different songs they sing.   TUI SONG


I bought a tui feeder from Predator Free NZ  for my sister's birthday and liked it so I've ordered one for myself. I'm going to install it above the woodshed and close to the Callistemon.

This is bound to attract more tui than the six that already live here so it could get noisy.

Still, it's better than the bloody racket the neighbours make with their lawnmowers and weedeaters.