Keep an eye out this spring as kaka seem to be feeling the urge to fly out from the forests and into the city.
Lynmore's Betty Shepherd was surprised when she spotted one perched in a tree on Moana Tce last Saturday.
"I've lived in Lynmore for over 40 years and this is the first time I've seen one in the area.
"I saw one in the Okareka forest last year and I think it might be the same one," she said.
Department of Conservation technical adviser of ecology Rhys Burns suspects most of the nearby kaka are living in the Kaimai-Mamaku plateau.