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Pukeko chick
The people who know me personally, know that I am someone who loves watching birds and also talking to them every now and then. And you also know that Pukeko are my second favourite after seagulls. I never imagined, though, that I would one day have to be responsible for the life of a Pukeko chick. I found it a few days ago on a paddock on the farm - or rather, the Pukeko found me. So I picked it up, and now it's my responsibility to keep it alive - maybe even get it to the stage where it could be released back into the "wild". Maybe it's more a matter of the Pukeko keeping me alive instead of the other way around. My mood is horrible and if it wasn't for the birds (i.e. the pigeons, chicken and the Pukeko), I don't know what I would feel like. What a horrible place this planet would be if it was only filled with human beings!!

I feel like it would be the right thing to do to hand the bird over to bird rescue - who would look after it when I'm not here anymore? And I'm not looking after it the right way, I'm no bird expert. Just because I love watching them, doesn't mean I know much about them. I simply just enjoy being around them. Wouldn't the bird be better off with someone who actually knows what they are doing?  I just don't know. I'm very stressed with things as they are and I'm sure that can't be any good for the bird. It'll feel that the person who cares for him/her isn't well.

There we go, you still didn't get that seagull blog entry.... most of you will be quite happy about that anyway.

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