A “chubby” little kiwi was last thing Patrick Murphy expected to see when popping into his local Four Square for a bottle of milk. But see it he did.
The ferry driver was chatting to his mate by the wharf in Russell, Bay of Islands, after dark when he saw the brown kiwi “fossicking around, poking his beak here and here” on the night of May 8.
“Only about three or four paces from us was this little fat kiwi! What a blessing.”
“He actually hopped up on the first step, as if he was going into the dairy, then hopped down again. He was poking in the crevices around the building.
“Then he saw us, took fright and ran off toward York St. We spotted it again and I managed to get a little video of it.”