Northern rata blossoming in June?
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#BayOfPlenty
#Aotearoa
#NewZealand
#FlowersOfMastodon

Road biking rural #Kiwi style

#BayOfPlenty #Ōtanewainuku #NorthIsland #NewZealand #cycling #biking #RoadBiking #GravelRoad

A couple of weeks ago, I set out before dawn to capture binaural audio recordings of the elusive Kōkako at Otanewainuku Reserve in New Zealand. While they remained too high in the canopy for me to photograph, I wasn’t disappointed. I managed to record some incredible audio of their calls. In this picture, however, is a little pīwakawaka & Kererū instead. 🫶🦅🌳

Of course! Here’s a mix of hashtags focused on both audio recording and photography:

#FieldRecording #BinauralAudio #NatureSounds #NZBirds #Kōkako #Pīwakawaka #Fantail #Otanewainuku #WildlifeRecording #Soundscape #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #ForestPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureLover #Birdwatching #NewZealandNature #Conservation #AudioArt #MindfulMoments #PhotographyLover

A mast year for many trees in the forest this year. I have never seen so many flowers on Pigeonwood/porokaiwhiri (Hedycarya arboea).
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Up here on the mountain we can smell the #matakana wood-smoke.
Or we have a big problem I don't know about.
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The word was made for this; a 'creature'. It's a giraffe weavil, Lasiorrhyncus, or 'tuwhaipapa', and a male. Not the biggest but still about 60-70mm.They eat rotting wood, well the bacteria that live inside them do.
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Good year for the native bush Clematis. If can find one I can reach easily I'm going to try to propagate some. Again.
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Another run-away rounded up this afternoon. It's Toddy. I heard him calling quite close to the house late Monday night, the bit of it otherwise known as Tuesday morning. He's been taken back to face the missus. #Otanewainuku

#NZTwits #pollination #Otanewainuku
Fushia has lots of deep blue pollen. Sometimes you find in beehives, but the bellbirds and tuis spend all day with them. The new green flower has the most, as they reach full 'fushia' colour the blue fades. The birds knock lots of flowers off the branches.
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#NZTwits #pollination #Otanewainuku
This time of year the bellbirds are just thrilled with all the native fushia, as long as we can keep possums from killing it. There's a reason their heads are so blue...
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