Wenderholme Regional Park

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Wenderholme Regional Park
8th - 10th December 2008 Orewa

Orewa is a busy place as it's not far from Auckland. We visited the very pretty Wenderholme Regional Park where there are some great walks. We walked up to a great viewpoint where we could see the estuary, sea and the park itself. We were trying to find the NZ North Island robin, and, as luck would have it, we bumped into a girl who worked for the park. She was monitoring their numbers and to do so she was feeding them meal-worms. She showed us where a pair of robins were, with their young, and let us feed them. They're quite a rare and very sweet bird. Like the UK robin, they are quite bold and came to feed really close to us. It was a wonderful moment.

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Photos

Wenderholme
Rob with the view of the estuary behind him

Wenderholme
The view of the estuary and the sea

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Me on our walk around the park

New Zealand robin
We helped a volunteer to feed meal worms to the robins - two adults and their baby

Sandy Bay
Rob feeding the gulls