Patrick Lam 
I had a little bit of time for pictures in February. Not much, but more than in January, and about one-third of December's output. #Birds #BirdsNZ #Alps
On the next day, we walked from Dart Hut to Shelter Rock Hut, where the takahē hang out. #BirdsNZ
Some of the birds, again mostly from Cascade Saddle, including takahē, kea, korimako/bellbird, and tūī. #BirdsNZ #birds
Sitting here in Kelburn, there is a pīwakawaka/fantail that perched on the Internet cable outside and flitted around a bit before flying off again. How cute! #BirdsNZ
The shuttle from Muddy Creek is at 2:30PM and it's a 6-8 hour walk from Shelter Rock Hut, so we left pretty early. Maybe the first part would have been more scenic if there had been more light. #BirdsNZ
OK, more kea content from Aspiring Hut.
Kea are notorious for eating rubber. They were thinking about eating the bicycles that were parked at the hut.
I also have a picture of a kea trying to steal my inReach, which is posted in my gallery, but not part of the trip report.
It's also reportedly a problem if you camp on the Cascade Saddle itself. It's a beautiful campsite (with a flash toilet), but there might be kea who decide that it's fun to tear apart your tent. Hence our 11 hour walk to Dart Hut.
There were so many kea! Haven't seen quite so many before. As I posted before, also takahē. Apart from that, here are some silvereye/tauhou. There were one or two fantail/pīwakawaka and South Island robin/toutouwai, but I didn't get good pictures of them. #BirdsNZ
What was also unusual was that the kea were hanging out at the huts. On a previous trip to Aspiring Hut we'd talked to a party who had gone up to Cascade Saddle and seen 6 keas. Here, there were about that number at Aspiring Hut, and also about that number at Dart Hut. It was the kea welcoming committee at Dart Hut: the hut is near a river with a bridge, and then there is a ladder down to the hut. The kea hang out near the ladder and at the hut.
We went from Raspberry Creek to Aspiring Hut and then over the Cascade Saddle to Dart Hut, finishing with the Rees Track and seeing takahē. There are a couple of pictures I've posted before. #SouthernAlps #BirdsNZ
@Lilysea @adub Bicycles less common, but also that. I also had a kea investigating my shoe on another trip. #BirdsNZ
