Thursday, June 23, 2011
Endangered bird
While sharp-eyed Bureaucrat birds circle overhead, our heroic wee feathered friend peeks out in the hope that someone will come to his aid, before it's too late.
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Come on! You have to give us a better update than that!
Apparently wildcrafty, if I was to poke an unmodified stick into the ground down there it would...require a consent!
That would cost our community group (Riverton Estuary Care Society Inc.) around $500 - a tidy sum, for poking a stick into the ground in the middle of private land. I'm reminded of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party I went to recently, only that was not so weird! But wait! There's more! If that stick was a length of tanalized wood, the same rule applies - consent@$500. I asked about a fence post. There was a strained silence at the other end of the line.
So there we are, in limbo. The story will be in tomorrows Southland Times, I suspect, and I'll put it up for those who don't live in these strange parts.
Meanwhile, the wee bird's feeling a little vulnerable...
Oh dear, I shouldn't laugh but that's really bad.
I had assumed it was because it was in water - but then wouldn't that make it a regional council thing ;-)
I'd really love to see the legislation they think governs this.
Look forward to the ST story.
I can see in my mind's eye, a rabble gathering in the town, each lusty Southlander armed with a driftwood stick, all liquored up with home-brewed cider, preparing to march on the local council building to build a pyre at the front door.
Wait! What's that sound outside...?
I was thinking the situation was ripe for some driftwood satire - random but pertinent sculptures appearing on carefully selected sites...
That's uncanny wildcrafty - I was thinking the very same thing!!!
Someone wll take photos too no doubt...
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