Stayed chirping around the house almost nonstop for about three weeks, since then it only comes back for a day every now and then.
Two pipiwharauroa gleaning caterpillars in a big kowhai on the riverbank.
One of several captive birds in the Esplanade aviaries. I'd like to photograph one of these beautiful birds in the wild, but that's not likely around here :-(
Counted 5 individual birds, 4 in shot
Slender canopy tree. The only two known trees of ribbonwood died here > 10 years ago but left two patches of seedlings, This is the largest plant we know and it still does not appear to have flowered. However, we have found a few seedlings ,less than 250 mm tall, so there's a fruiting tree somewhere here!