Kim Steutermann Rogers
on Tue 9/23/2008
This fall’s first goslings made their debut last week. I haven’t seen any yet, but we knew the adults were nesting, because they’d gone underground, so to speak, for the past few weeks. Instead of strutting through the golf-course-like grass on the grounds surrounding the Kilauea Lighthouse like they normally do, noshing on the salt-tolerant seashore paspalum, the adult nene have been spending their time under the native naupaka bushes, near their nests. That is, until closing time. Right at 4:00 p.m., when the gates to the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge shut and the people disappear, nene emerge.
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