by Julie Harrison | Oct 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
The trip over was quite bumpy for the group of 19 volunteers with a strong northerly blowing. This didn’t stop around half of the group trekking up to the flax weevil trial site with Will to do 2-minute counts of fauna on the 80 mature flax plants in the trial...
by Julie Harrison | Jul 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
A trip to Mana Island was conspiratorially put together to surprise our two young sons in June. We had not been before and it is right on our doorstep – so why not? Plus, we have friends who are overtly biased in their obvious love for all things Mana...
by Julie Harrison | Jul 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
A bird hide was installed in the Waikoko wetland and a new picnic table was also set up during the FOMI weekend working bee in March. A big thank you to the many people who helped make this happen: OMV for sponsoring this project. The DOC team of rangers Nick...
by Julie Harrison | Jul 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our newest residents on Mana Island, 40 fern birds, arrived in April 2019 all the way from Rotokare Scenic Reserve in South Taranaki in a project managed by FOMI. The North Island fernbirds/mātātā were caught at Rotokare using mist nets over three successive...
by Julie Harrison | Jul 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
‘Annie’ is named after Antonia Tait (nee Vella), one of the daughters of Mariano (Marijan) and Elisabeth Vella. Annie is a kauri sailing yacht which was built by Ted Bailey in Wellington at Shed 49 Clyde Quay sometime after 1909. After 1909, Andrew Vella had taken...
by Julie Harrison | Jul 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
https://www.facebook.com/manaislandfriends/videos/900976740255781/ The weather was kinder to us on this trip. Sunday was a highlight with sunny conditions after overnight rain. Cool and cloudy Saturday. This was our biggest group yet at 22 people. There were...
