My day today included *two* puddle bathing piwakawaka, NZ fantails, at two separate city reserves.
It's getting a bit dry in the city and small puddles are getting popular.
Meep Meep!
https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/350755648
https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/350755647
Kai Allen gets a historic first Supercars win at Ruapuna 🏆
Autumn clean-up tomorrow at Opawa Community Gardens, if anyone wants to go. 10-12pm. #Otautahi #Christchurch
After recent media stories about butterfly declines in New Zealand, centred around one transect in Nelson, it's heartening to see in Stacey Lewthwaite's graphs that kahukura and monarch butterflies have not declined around Christchurch. That's in the last two decades along my 78 km of transects.
#EcologicalMonitoring #butterflies #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ
Kia ora all, I've just started a really cool new job at the end of last year as a tutor for Brain Play! We teach STEM subjects to groups of kids, and do 1:1 tutoring of #neurodivergent children too.
I'm AuDHD, so I empathise so much with the kids I get to work with.
Kind of an #ad but I really believe in the cause and am not being paid to share this, so there's that 😉
https://www.brainplay.co.nz/about
#AoNZ #Aotearoa #NewZealand #Auckland #Hamilton #Wellington #Christchurch #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #autism #ADHD
On Sunday 26 April, I'll be leading another nature walk in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, this time from the Sign of the Takahe to the Botanic Gardens. That's part of the four-day City Nature Challenge.
It's a terrific walk designed to take us through many of the city's nature filled nooks and crannies.
Again, all welcome. We leave from the Sign of the Takahe (by the bus stop for the No 1 Cashmere bus) at 9:45 am.
If you don't have the time to commit to the full walk, you can join us for the first part walking to the South Library, or from the South Library to the Art Gallery, or for the final stint from the Art Gallery to the Botanic Gardens.
Below are some photos from the previous two years we've done this walk.
https://ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/whats-on/event/takahe-to-taone-hikoi-2
#CityNatureChallenge #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ #NatureWalk #iNaturalistNZ
If you're in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ, next Sunday, and are keen for a nature walk, well, you're in luck!
As part of the city's annual Walking Festival, Noah Fenwick and I will be leading a walk/explore around Waikākāriki Horseshoe Lake. We're two local iNaturalist fanatics and ecologists and are keen to see what we can find around this restored city wetland.
The walk starts at 10 am and will go for about three hours.
All welcome!
https://ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/whats-on/event/nature-walk-through-waikakariki-horseshoe-lake
https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=109378&subview=map
Jon Sullivan
Speedcafe.com 🤖
Angela
Mark Darbyshire🌱🏳️🌈
Kelvin Ang
Ko Simon toku ingoa 
