September 29, 2025 • 7 mins
Disaster says the rainfall numbers for September are very similar to last year.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Bye. I know I'll miss you. Came into my lave
grammar Master farms on the edge of the late walker
tiff of a closer in station and joins us. Thanks
for the team at Arby Rural once again. Good afternoon, disaster.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, good up and Andy, get up and everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
How's the rain situation looking?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Did?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I ask?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh, it's just the same old, same old. And yeah,
we've had another sixty three miles of rain since you
and I spoke last Tuesday. And yeah, so ground temperature
saw tenages today, sitting about five point four five point
five with the readings I did. And yeah, still snow
on the tops. They're not really all that hot. Well
(00:46):
it's got up to ten degrees now, but I just
just more of the same, really, Andy, more snow on
the tops. And as I said last week before that,
we had all winter. And ironically, I think most I know,
Cornet Peak and Caudronus keep of clothes, but some well
one of the kids were telling me the other day
that they've got a day's free skiing today last day
(01:07):
that just for children, And yeah, quite ironic. You know,
it's a bit like last year. All the sun came
at the end of season. So you know, same old,
same old Andy. But I guess every day we're getting
closer to it stopping to rain.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You're hearing at some parts in Morven South and going
towards four hundred mills for the month, which is absurd.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah it is. And and but you know, similar to
what happened last year. And I was just listening to
on the radio yesterday and they were talking about you know,
the Hawk's Bay and first places needing rain and it's
certainly not the case down here, and it just it
just is exactly the same as what happened last year.
We talked talked about it, and you know, you go
back a few years that that wasn't wasn't the case.
(01:47):
You got to weave it a bit of cramp and
then it sort of got into it. So yeah, it's
just it seems to be the norm.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Now, disaster. You want to talk about the certain birds today,
which intriguingly enough, is actually what I'm talking about with
the team from Environment Southend today.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's a matiken, yeah, or as I would say, it's
the Australasian bittern. Yes. And I don't know if people
are familiar with the bittern but that's quite a coincidence
that you and I talk about it today, and it
was what I was wanting to talk about. So about
ten years ago, my fence and contract to one Pedro Allison,
(02:26):
who was well known around Wyndham. He fencing around the
back and he gave me a call that ninety fiftief.
I saw the bird flying around today and I said, well,
Pedro's seen a few birds. He said yeah, but he said,
I've seen nothing like this. So he described this bird
that just had big long wings along neck and its
feet were dangling down. And I said, well, was it
a heron? No, it wasn't here, And I said a hawk. No,
(02:48):
not a hawk. So I know Perry Duck in the skies. No,
So I said, I don't know what heading sandwiches Pedro,
but I wouldn't have a clothes. Well, a couple of
weeks later, I was driving around the track, just driving
parallel to the creek. The next thing, this bird came
out and I actually actually got a bit of a writer,
but what the hell? And I automatically knew what Pedro
(03:09):
was talking about. So this bird was just gangling. It
was almost it was almost looked about prehistoric and and
I just what I stopped and I just watched it,
and it just it looked as though it was struggling
to fly and its legs down. Then it dropped down
and open to the swamp. And when it stood there,
I could hardly say it just still as anything. So
(03:30):
got home, got the old bird block out and not
the one you're thinking of ending, and had a block
of saw enough that came up with a bitter, and
I said, god, I thought i'd discovered something, you know.
So it gave my old mannering at the time. And
I started to describe this bird, and so I said
before I said I had to be a bitter and
(03:51):
gave another made of mine a ring, and I saw
he wouldn't decided had to be a batman. And I said, well,
am I the only person that's never seen a bitter?
And uh, well as I, So I've never seen one.
How we have cut along story short that was sort
of bitten, and I've only seen it a few times since,
And over that time I thought just not probably two
years ago the last time. Now the birds of New
(04:14):
Zealand the Targa region have been searching for the Ostelasian
pits and I was talking Lasiter. I know, I ran
the up she's part of the survey and I said, well, actually,
I said that I've seen them at Mark Blake told
of the story. So, over the last three years they've
had these artistic reading devices recording devices of twenty eight
(04:36):
of them right around various wetlands in Otago and so
so they've gathered all the starter and they've they've recorded
thousands of theirs to listen for it. And it's it's
got a really distinctive boom and core and it's the
male that does that during the breeding season, which is
from September through the December and so so so the
(04:58):
birds of Otaga. They organized a couple of post postgraduate
students to process the sound files from the last three years.
And then they've got a preliminary graph out that's showing
where the where these prisons are and it confirmed and
it just confirmed that these prisons are widely distributed across
a target. But you know, they're not sure if it's
(05:19):
just the breeding pairs or just males moving between the
wetlands calling out to themselves and the dark.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So's it's it's quite it's quite fastinating the fact that
they like the swampy areas, the bloody hard to see
when they drop down, they just don't know it moves.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And they on little little fish and eggs in the water,
what have you. So they're saying that they you know,
they they described them as a cryptic, highly mobile and sweatened, burned,
in the same family as herons and negrets. So crypt
be cryptic and meaning mysterious. And you couldn't the squad
(06:00):
at Benners. So yeah, so they're about and they don't
know how many, but they're definitely on the endangered list.
So yeah, I just I thought i'd share that with
you today, And he said, if here that you're talking
about it later on with someone.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Else, Yeah, with Mike from Environment South and what they're
calling it the Matichi musters. Anybody that's fight they sees
them because they're rare so hard to get in touch
with ves.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, that's right, and so they've still got a bit
more to do. But but you know, they they've got
a great here where they've seen and I've seen heard
heard them in the in the many are Toto, the
Sinklear wetlands, down and down in the Catlands and on
Cornet Peak Station, the glen Orkie Swamp and lak Patrick
(06:46):
here and on Plosburn which is just part of the
of the Tago one. So yeah, quite like going into it.
But if you see them, and obviously back in the
day they were quite common. My father said to me
at the time, you know, there's to be quite a
few of them around Tianni, but I'd never come across them.
But when you do, you'll know it because you think
you're watching a bloody as an alphabet cop the birds.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Great way to leave it to a great topic to
tie in with the years later on. I always appreciate
your time. Yeah, okay, Andy, Gravic Master a close friend
station thanks of course to Batman and the team at
ab Rural. Leon Black joins us next talking Thornbury Young
Farmer's ninetieth celebration a lie November and December fi
Bye. I know I'll miss you. Came into my lave
grammar Master farms on the edge of the late walker
tiff of a closer in station and joins us. Thanks
for the team at Arby Rural once again. Good afternoon, disaster.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, good up and Andy, get up and everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
How's the rain situation looking?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Did?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I ask?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh, it's just the same old, same old. And yeah,
we've had another sixty three miles of rain since you
and I spoke last Tuesday. And yeah, so ground temperature
saw tenages today, sitting about five point four five point
five with the readings I did. And yeah, still snow
on the tops. They're not really all that hot. Well
(00:46):
it's got up to ten degrees now, but I just
just more of the same, really, Andy, more snow on
the tops. And as I said last week before that,
we had all winter. And ironically, I think most I know,
Cornet Peak and Caudronus keep of clothes, but some well
one of the kids were telling me the other day
that they've got a day's free skiing today last day
(01:07):
that just for children, And yeah, quite ironic. You know,
it's a bit like last year. All the sun came
at the end of season. So you know, same old,
same old Andy. But I guess every day we're getting
closer to it stopping to rain.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You're hearing at some parts in Morven South and going
towards four hundred mills for the month, which is absurd.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah it is. And and but you know, similar to
what happened last year. And I was just listening to
on the radio yesterday and they were talking about you know,
the Hawk's Bay and first places needing rain and it's
certainly not the case down here, and it just it
just is exactly the same as what happened last year.
We talked talked about it, and you know, you go
back a few years that that wasn't wasn't the case.
(01:47):
You got to weave it a bit of cramp and
then it sort of got into it. So yeah, it's
just it seems to be the norm.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Now, disaster. You want to talk about the certain birds today,
which intriguingly enough, is actually what I'm talking about with
the team from Environment Southend today.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's a matiken, yeah, or as I would say, it's
the Australasian bittern. Yes. And I don't know if people
are familiar with the bittern but that's quite a coincidence
that you and I talk about it today, and it
was what I was wanting to talk about. So about
ten years ago, my fence and contract to one Pedro Allison,
(02:26):
who was well known around Wyndham. He fencing around the
back and he gave me a call that ninety fiftief.
I saw the bird flying around today and I said, well,
Pedro's seen a few birds. He said yeah, but he said,
I've seen nothing like this. So he described this bird
that just had big long wings along neck and its
feet were dangling down. And I said, well, was it
a heron? No, it wasn't here, And I said a hawk. No,
(02:48):
not a hawk. So I know Perry Duck in the skies. No,
So I said, I don't know what heading sandwiches Pedro,
but I wouldn't have a clothes. Well, a couple of
weeks later, I was driving around the track, just driving
parallel to the creek. The next thing, this bird came
out and I actually actually got a bit of a writer,
but what the hell? And I automatically knew what Pedro
(03:09):
was talking about. So this bird was just gangling. It
was almost it was almost looked about prehistoric and and
I just what I stopped and I just watched it,
and it just it looked as though it was struggling
to fly and its legs down. Then it dropped down
and open to the swamp. And when it stood there,
I could hardly say it just still as anything. So
(03:30):
got home, got the old bird block out and not
the one you're thinking of ending, and had a block
of saw enough that came up with a bitter, and
I said, god, I thought i'd discovered something, you know.
So it gave my old mannering at the time. And
I started to describe this bird, and so I said
before I said I had to be a bitter and
(03:51):
gave another made of mine a ring, and I saw
he wouldn't decided had to be a batman. And I said, well,
am I the only person that's never seen a bitter?
And uh, well as I, So I've never seen one.
How we have cut along story short that was sort
of bitten, and I've only seen it a few times since,
And over that time I thought just not probably two
years ago the last time. Now the birds of New
(04:14):
Zealand the Targa region have been searching for the Ostelasian
pits and I was talking Lasiter. I know, I ran
the up she's part of the survey and I said, well, actually,
I said that I've seen them at Mark Blake told
of the story. So, over the last three years they've
had these artistic reading devices recording devices of twenty eight
(04:36):
of them right around various wetlands in Otago and so
so they've gathered all the starter and they've they've recorded
thousands of theirs to listen for it. And it's it's
got a really distinctive boom and core and it's the
male that does that during the breeding season, which is
from September through the December and so so so the
(04:58):
birds of Otaga. They organized a couple of post postgraduate
students to process the sound files from the last three years.
And then they've got a preliminary graph out that's showing
where the where these prisons are and it confirmed and
it just confirmed that these prisons are widely distributed across
a target. But you know, they're not sure if it's
(05:19):
just the breeding pairs or just males moving between the
wetlands calling out to themselves and the dark.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So's it's it's quite it's quite fastinating the fact that
they like the swampy areas, the bloody hard to see
when they drop down, they just don't know it moves.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And they on little little fish and eggs in the water,
what have you. So they're saying that they you know,
they they described them as a cryptic, highly mobile and sweatened, burned,
in the same family as herons and negrets. So crypt
be cryptic and meaning mysterious. And you couldn't the squad
(06:00):
at Benners. So yeah, so they're about and they don't
know how many, but they're definitely on the endangered list.
So yeah, I just I thought i'd share that with
you today, And he said, if here that you're talking
about it later on with someone.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Else, Yeah, with Mike from Environment South and what they're
calling it the Matichi musters. Anybody that's fight they sees
them because they're rare so hard to get in touch
with ves.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, that's right, and so they've still got a bit
more to do. But but you know, they they've got
a great here where they've seen and I've seen heard
heard them in the in the many are Toto, the
Sinklear wetlands, down and down in the Catlands and on
Cornet Peak Station, the glen Orkie Swamp and lak Patrick
(06:46):
here and on Plosburn which is just part of the
of the Tago one. So yeah, quite like going into it.
But if you see them, and obviously back in the
day they were quite common. My father said to me
at the time, you know, there's to be quite a
few of them around Tianni, but I'd never come across them.
But when you do, you'll know it because you think
you're watching a bloody as an alphabet cop the birds.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Great way to leave it to a great topic to
tie in with the years later on. I always appreciate
your time. Yeah, okay, Andy, Gravic Master a close friend
station thanks of course to Batman and the team at
ab Rural. Leon Black joins us next talking Thornbury Young
Farmer's ninetieth celebration a lie November and December fi
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