Somebody has been hanging Christmas decorations on the plants along the walkway through Centennial Park in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. I photographed this one yesterday hung on a harakeke flower.

Thinking more, perhaps it's some clever pollination experiment! I wonder if these decorations make the red harakeke flowers more visible to the local birds (korimako and starlings and silvereyes) that feed from these flowers.

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