Lovely day today at Maungatautari where I saw quite a few Popokotea (#Mohoua albicilla) whiteheads.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/312405063

And thank you to the impressive Aotearoa-based identifiers who had already confirmed IDs before I had finished uploading all the observations.

Whitehead (Mohoua albicilla)

Whitehead from Cambridge, Waikato, NZ on September 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM by stephen-ao

iNaturalist NZ

I took a video of a Toutouwai (#Petroica longipes) North Island Robin drumming the ground with its tail feathers and gobbling anything that poked their head up.

Not sure if this is known behaviour or whether I’m the first human to experience it. Happy to share the video but the focus is terrible because there were several branches getting in the way.