Patrick Lam Mar 6

I had a little bit of time for pictures in February. Not much, but more than in January, and about one-third of December's output. #Birds #BirdsNZ #Alps

https://patricklam.ca/post/20260301-february-photos/

Show threadPatrick Lam Mar 6
Some more general pictures that I processed last month. #Birds
Show threadPatrick Lam Mar 6
From Lake Wānaka and also around the Aspiring Hut (which had heaps of kea). #BirdsNZ #Birds
Show threadPatrick Lam Mar 6
Let's have a few pictures from around Lac Blanc last summer, in the Alps. #TMB #Alps #Birds
Show threadPatrick Lam 
Just checked to make sure it was the ibex and not the person looking at Mont Blanc that I just posted. Because it's kind of a similar picture. #TMB #Alps
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Show threadPatrick Lam Mar 6

There was alpine ice in some of the TMB pictures, though we didn't go near it.

Here's some waterfall ice in Ontario from last month, at the Madawaska Ice Festival. Thanks to the Alpine Club of Canada, Toronto Section, for organizing.

Show threadPatrick Lam Mar 6

Back to Aotearoa and the Cascade Saddle trip last month. I hope I can write a trip report one of these days.

The itinerary that we'd had in mind for a while was from Raspberry Creek carpark through to Aspiring Hut, over Cascade Saddle, through to Dart Hut, and then to Shelter Rock and out at Muddy Creek.

We finally managed to do it in February, with lots of itinerary changes to not be on the saddle on a rainy day.

Here are pictures from Queenstown through to Aspiring Hut, so not yet the saddle.

#tramping

Show threadPatrick Lam Mar 6
More pictures from Aotearoa, this time from Pōneke. Light Cycles was a light show in the Botanical Garden in June 2024, and there are just some other city pictures here.
Show threadPatrick Lam Mar 6
We were coming back from Ruapehu last September and stopped by the cherry blossom festival at Aston Norwood, which I highly recommend.
Show threadPatrick Lam Mar 6
And we'll wrap this up with more nature/garden pictures mostly from Wellington.
Show threade. hashman 🇵🇸Mar 6
@va2lam photo 3: those are rhododendrons, not hydrangeas :) hydrangeas have toothed leaves with a lot of visible veins, rhodies are smoother, skinnier, and longer
Show threadPatrick Lam Mar 6
@ehashman thanks! Always wondering when I'd get an image detail wrong. Fixed it. The caterpillar later in the thread is on a hydrangea? (I think I got them mixed up in my head).
Show threade. hashman 🇵🇸Mar 6
@va2lam yeah that looks right to me! And the white flowers look like azalea (same family as rhodies)
Show threadPatrick Lam Mar 6
@ehashman yeah I think Google Lens had id'd the white flower also as a rhododendron maybe? But of course I would trust a knowledgeable person much more than a computer in that regard.
Show threade. hashman 🇵🇸Mar 6
@va2lam looking at the leaves again I'm inclined to agree with Lens. The single flowers as opposed to clusters spoke azalea to me but the foliage isn't quite right
Show threadCatherine Babault3d ago
@va2lam Nice shot of the tūī!
Show threadPatrick Lam 3d ago
@CatherineBabault Thanks. The cherry blossoms sure helped!
Show threadJoshua LeungMar 6
@va2lam
That first one looks rather awesome
Show threadPatrick Lam Mar 6
@aligorith thanks!