Birdlings Flat III: Selection of Online Sources

BEACH FROM THE AIR – YouTube clip, Birdlings Flat and Halswell Quarry – the first 60 seconds of this short clip contains some aerial drone footage of Birdlings Flat, October 2017

LANDSCAPE DESCRIPTION – “Banks Peninsula Landscape Study”, for Christchurch City Council 2007, pages 194 to 197 are on Kaitorete Spit/Birdlings Flat

HISTORY – Wikipedia entry on “Birdling’s Flat”

TV PROGRAMME – Canterbury Television programme “Love Thy Neighbours” (August 1999) about some trouble between neighbours at Birdlings Fat, containing some good footage of the beach and village as well as some interesting historical material about the village (16 minutes 30 seconds long YouTube clip)

RADIO PROGRAMME – Country Life, “Down at the Beach”, 14 August 2014 Radio NZ Programme, interviews with 5 Birdlings Flat residents 

A BEACH RICH IN GEMSTONES – Te Ara, The Online Encyclopedia of New Zealand, brief entry “Looking for Gemstones, Birdlings Flat”

GEOMORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT – “Significant Coastal Lagoon Systems in the South Island New Zealand” by R.M. Kirk and G.A. Lauder, 2000, Department of Conservation, see pages 18-24 on “Waihora Lake Ellesmere” which also refers to Kaitorete Spit and Birdlings Flat

AGATES – Craig McGregor’s page on “Birdlings Flat Agates” from his website “Craigs Gems”

PHOTOS OF A VISIT – Licorice Allsorts, a blog by New Zealander Angela Hill, excellent set of photos taken on a visit to Birdlings Flat in May 2014

HISTORICAL SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE – “The Lake Ellesmere Spit with Map, Sections and Photographs” by R. Speight, in Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1930

MOVIE CLIP OF NORTH END WAVES – YouTube clip, “Birdlings Flat North End Cliffs”, October 2012

ANOTHER MOVIE CLIP OF STORMY WAVES – YouTube clip, “Agate fossicking at Birdlings Flat with Doug”, showing some wild waves, Feb 2014 

PHOTOS OF GEMSTONES – “Gemstones” by Jocelyn Thornton, 1985, see page 33, “Beach pebbles – Birdlings Flat”

STONES – Country Chic Crafts New Zealand, a blog by Janette Ritchie from Springston, Canterbury, post on “New Zealand Gemstones” with a number of photos of Birdlings Flat stones, including agates and petrified wood

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