Thursday, 3 December 2020

White Faced Heron and Banded Rail

 Our wetland at Old Mill Lane is a wonderful place to view our wetland birds. Here is White faced Heron and Banded Rail - Always in a hurry to somewhere.





Forest Gecko

We found this lovely little Forest Gecko on our path. It was really windy so we think it was shaken out of the kanuka nearby.






Thursday, 22 October 2020

Cave Weta

 Cave Weta. We see these little fellows often at our place. This males body is about 15mm long. Very docile fellow. Its a real good jumper with those powerful legs.






Monday, 5 October 2020

Black Shag (Great Cormarant) in our wetland

 On Occasion our wetland stream is visited by this Black Shag, Today I managed to sneak close enough for some shots.












Tuesday, 8 September 2020

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Monarchs

Our lounge at the moment with about 10 Monarch Chrysalis under way. We take the caterpillars inside to protect them from the wasps and South African Preying Mantis until they can fly away. This one emerged today.