A gravel bank created when an island in the centre of Henley lake was reconfigured a month or so ago is proving to be more popular with wildlife than was ever anticipated.
The latest inhabitants of the little island are royal spoonbills, which have dropped in to share the gravel bank with nesting black billed gulls.
The royal spoonbills are one of six spoonbill species worldwide and the only one that breeds in New Zealand.
In recent times sightings of the large white waterbird have been regularly reported in South Wairarapa but in the past few days several of the birds have dropped in to suss out the Henley lake island that only recently attracted the endangered black billed gulls.
