Paradise Ducks ...

............... a lifetime Mum & Dad.

The image has got a painterly look because I zoomed in hard with my iPhone. Ah well. It was the best camera at the time.

‘The paradise shelduck is New Zealand’s most widely distributed waterfowl, when both geographic spread and habitat use are taken into account. It occurs on North, South and Stewart Islands, all large near-shore islands with grassland (e.g. Kapiti, Great Barrier, D’Urville) and has straggled to distant Raoul and Lord Howe Islands, and to the Chatham Islands from which an as-yet unnamed shelduck species was exterminated by the first Polynesian settlers.

Paradise shelducks occur throughout the pastoral landscape, whether high country or lowlands, on river flats in mountain areas, at heads of protected bays or fiords, around the shorelines of all large lakes and hydro-dams, and increasingly on recreational grasslands and parks within urban areas. The paradise ducks are plentiful and not decreasing in numbers. ‘
- Wikipedia

It’s ended up being the week for getting my seating sorted. My sofa arrived today, per courtesy of my grandson-in-law & his Dad. It looks great, and I’m stoked to be getting to the end of the shifting & sorting.