The Shining Cuckoo's are back everyone!! Four have been reported on Birding NZ (http://www.birdingnz.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4787), so keep and eye and ear out.
Call is "chewwie-chewwie-chewwie cheww cheww" repeated several times. You see them more than you hear them. I am off in search of some tomorrow, hope to find the first few at Maungatautari for the year.
So keep watching!!