This season we have had 35 kingfisher chicks come in to care - all of them due to total clear felling slash-and-burn of everything for another housing development.
And just to rub salt into the wound, the developer makes $$$$. The plant operator makes $$$ clearing, the wildlife spotter/catcher gets paid and the wildlife rehabilitator who gets the results of the development gets??????....... that's right not a red cent, not a brass razoo, no support whatever!
So why do it? - because doing nothing is not an option.
So meet some of the guests
And just to rub salt into the wound, the developer makes $$$$. The plant operator makes $$$ clearing, the wildlife spotter/catcher gets paid and the wildlife rehabilitator who gets the results of the development gets??????....... that's right not a red cent, not a brass razoo, no support whatever!
So why do it? - because doing nothing is not an option.
So meet some of the guests
And some more. . .
They are Sacred Kingfishers, (Todiramphus sancta) spikey feathers with spikey personalities to match. Favourite ocupation eating, oh and squabling.
All have recently been released back to the wild.
