Lucky night: we spotted two kiwis in Tāwharanui Regional Park (and heard heaps).
First wild kiwis ever for the friends who came with us.
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A Ruby-throated Hummingbird resting amidst morning sun back lightning 🐦📸

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Winter Backyard Birding

Black oil sunflower seeds transformed my backyard into a small avian metropolis.

https://islandinthenet.com/winter-backyard-birding/

By New Zealand artists Janine Williams and Charles Williams @charlesjaninewilliams at 3 Woods Road on the back of Flip Out Whangārei, facing towards Railway Road, Whangārei, New Zealand in January 2019. Photos taken February 2025. Thanks to @streetartcities app for leading me here.
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"The Kereru (wood pigeon) are symbolic of guardianship, forewarning, grief and awareness for Maori." @streetartcities
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Artist website: https://charlesjaninewilliams.com
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"From the mountains to the sea" by New Zealand artists Janine Williams and Charles Williams @charlesjaninewilliams at Wynyard Quarter’s pump station in Amey Daldy Park, 31 Daldy Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand in August 2021. Photos taken February 2025. Thanks to @streetartcities app for leading me here.
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'The placement and colour selection of the design reflects the natural habitat of the chosen birdlife (in consultation with mana whenua) while showing the comparisons of their physical size.”
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The birds included in the mural are:

Kuaka - Bar-tailed godwit
Karuhiruhi / Kawau - Pied shag
Tarāpuka - Black-billed gull
Pakahā - Fluttering shearwater
Kāka
Warou - Welcome swallow
Kōkako - Blue-wattled crow
Korimako - Bellbird
Pūkeko - Purple swamphen
Karoro - Southern black-backed gull
Tōrea - Oyster catcher
Tuturiwhatu – Dotterel'
https://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/news/2021/08/a-new-mural-in-wynyard-quarter-celebrates-our-native-birds/
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Artist website: https://charlesjaninewilliams.com
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