Thread: Snow on the Kawekas

Come on Over and visit if your after sun. Its been sitting between mid 20s and 30s over here since mid December. Sea temp is low 20s. Best summer break for a few years.


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Originally Posted by Dicko

Come on Over and visit if your after sun. Its been sitting between mid 20s and 30s over here since mid December. Sea temp is low 20s. Best summer break for a few years.


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yep that's nice weather, the human zoo of people in the big city erases all desire to visit though unfortunately.

I wonder if snow at this time will effect the fawn survival rate for the season or if most are old enough now to make it through.

Originally Posted by Shearhuntfish

I wonder if snow at this time will effect the fawn survival rate for the season or if most are old enough now to make it through.

Quite a few of the Sika don't end up having fawns until later in December. Seen a couple of hinds a week before Christmas that were heavily pregnant.
End of the day it's mother nature's form of population control.

Mitre and the Kings in the Tararuas yesterday.
The tussock hill on the left is Baldy.

Originally Posted by TLB

Quite a few of the Sika don't end up having fawns until later in December. Seen a couple of hinds a week before Christmas that were heavily pregnant.
End of the day it's mother nature's form of population control.

Heavily pregnant or pot bellied?
I've seen a lot of sika hinds (triple figures) over the last couple of weeks and most of them have fawns running with them already.
Where I've been it's been a high fawning percentage. Unfortunately.

I remember reading somewhere about a Central North Island high country sheep station losing 2,000 or 20,000 sheep or some such horrendous number to a massive snow storm in late December, back in the 1920's.

Snowing at the Waiau Pass today, Nelson Lakes NP.

Bring back global warming I reckon……brrrrrrr

Originally Posted by Bush Basher

Bring back global warming I reckon……brrrrrrr

Yep. It's all these idiots falling for the "we must plant more trees to save the planet" bullshit.
They've over done it.
Better get out and cut a few down.
Regarding fawn survival, they are mostly up and running with mum, so should be hardy enough to handle it.

New years day in 2001, from memory, there was snow on the Kawekas too.