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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b aw.

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Speaker 2: Man In the Gardener's Road Climb pass gelder Rude, Kira Jack.

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Speaker 3: I'm in an absolutely beautiful garden here in Bannickburn from

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Speaker 3: some friends of mine, and it's just gorgeous that two

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Speaker 3: weeks are everywhere at bell Berts you name it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, how lovely? How long are you there for?

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Speaker 3: I've been here. I was on a kiwi hui this

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Speaker 3: week in Queenstown and I'm here today and after we finished,

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Speaker 3: I'm driving back to Julie because I think it's time

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Speaker 3: for me to go home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is it isn't I mean, I feel like Central

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Speaker 2: Tago's home home we all wish for, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Don't worry? That's what I think too. This is exactly

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Speaker 3: what it is. But yeah, I feel really blessed to

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Speaker 3: do this. But let's talk about these things, because you

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Speaker 3: know what they've got here. I mean, Karen and Garrett

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Speaker 3: have got these these two weeks feeding in these these

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Speaker 3: nectar bowls, right, and they made from sugar water, and

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Speaker 3: it's unbelievable to see how they actually appreciate these sort

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Speaker 3: of things. But it's not just them, it's the bell

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Speaker 3: birds as well, but also the.

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Speaker 2: Silver eyes well, especially at this time of year right

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Speaker 2: because it's freezer. You know, central targets raising, but it's

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Speaker 2: cold everywhere.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So it's a couple of things you can

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Speaker 3: do something about birds. So you know, even just talked

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Speaker 3: about Kiwi all week, I thought, I'm going to talk

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Speaker 3: about different birds for a change, and these birds really

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Speaker 3: need to be supported thinter. I feel if you really

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Speaker 3: want to keep them in your garden, and that I

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Speaker 3: think should be the gig very simple. The gig is that,

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Speaker 3: for instance, if you have a lot of silver eyes

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Speaker 3: in the garden right now, and you keep on providing

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Speaker 3: them with food, they will come back time and time

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Speaker 3: again until it's breeding time. And then what happens is

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Speaker 3: they kind of disappear, They become quiet, they make sure

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Speaker 3: you don't find the nest, but they are still there.

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Speaker 3: And what they do in summer once they know where

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Speaker 3: your garden is, what they do in summer is they

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Speaker 3: eat a fitz medi bugs, all sorts of other pests,

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Speaker 3: scale insects, and they actually do your pest control for you.

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Speaker 3: And may I say they do it for free.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah. So if you want to sit up, if

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Speaker 2: you want to sit up feeding for birds, what should

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Speaker 2: we be doing. Obviously, sugar water is a good option.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not honeywater. That's actually against the law with diseases

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Speaker 3: of bird bees and all that. Yeah, but yeah, sugar

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Speaker 3: water and on a regular basis, and that sugar water

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Speaker 3: needs to be replenished every now and then, but they

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Speaker 3: usually get rid of it anyway. So that's number one.

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Speaker 3: Number two is plants, trees and shrubs that are flowering

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Speaker 3: at this time of the year and give you natural nectar,

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Speaker 3: you know, things like the sassi and stuff like eucalyptus.

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Speaker 3: Some pool really are flowering at the moment. Banks, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: i s are flowering. That all helps, and those are

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Speaker 3: really nice things to consider right now. If you don't

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Speaker 3: know what the plant in your garden, think about this

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Speaker 3: right now, and you will be absolutely stunted for the

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Speaker 3: rest of your life with all these creatures coming around.

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Speaker 2: About leaving some seeds out in that kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: You shouldn't leave free to day.

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Speaker 3: No bread when when the birds eat bread and it

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Speaker 3: becomes wet, you know, for instance, they drink water, it

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Speaker 3: swells up in their stomach and that courses all sorts

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Speaker 3: of stomach problems.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean you can talk about ADHD, but this was

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Speaker 3: this is really bad, you know, So that's not good.

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Speaker 3: And the other thing is the light blocks, if you like,

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Speaker 3: and things like that. That is quite often the way

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Speaker 3: to go as well, dripping made into light blocks. I

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Speaker 3: put some pictures on the website people can see how

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Speaker 3: it works. And the other thing is the mad butcher

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Speaker 3: uses old offcuts of rubbishy meat and puts it together

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Speaker 3: and boy do they love their oh' just wonderful. Yes.

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Speaker 2: The key though, is to make sure you're putting in

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Speaker 2: an elevated spot where the rat can't get to. You

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Speaker 2: want to make sure you're feeding the birds but not

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Speaker 2: various other wildlife.

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Speaker 3: Around your totally right there.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thanks rude, Travel home safely, road climb past in

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Speaker 2: the garden for us.

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