After our hike around the Kaikoura Peninsula Sunday, when we were waiting for Gayle to bring the van back around to pick us up, the children who were with me, and I, were quite amused by the sounds of the shags going to bed in the tree above us. A shag is a large bird that lives along the coast; I think they eat fish. They sleep in trees, and when each one comes in for the night they apparently have to discuss the day! The sounds they make are so funny that I tried to capture them in this video so you can enjoy it, too.
Our family's life in New Zealand
[…] boys, we were sitting on a picnic table under a large pine tree that shags roost in to sleep. The shags were going to bed, and the noises they made were quite comical! Something like a cross between a […]