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@Brad_Rosenheim Yes, there's a significant increase in korimako across this route and all my city routes, especially in the hills. Here's a snapshot of my first and most recent July runs up in the hills by the city. The difference is striking, especially in the native forest.
More trees + older trees + pest control = more forest birds
#birds #korimako #Anthornis #bellbird #nz #EcologicalMonitoring
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@Brad_Rosenheim Yes, there's a significant increase in korimako across this route and all my city routes, especially in the hills. Here's a snapshot of my first and most recent July runs up in the hills by the city. The difference is striking, especially in the native forest.
More trees + older trees + pest control = more forest birds
#birds #korimako #Anthornis #bellbird #nz #EcologicalMonitoring
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#WellingtonNZ - #KohingaKākano - #Kākano #SeedLibrary
"Improve the self-sustainability of your home by growing your own #kai from seed!
The Kākano Seed Libraries aim to encourage beginners into backyard gardening through the supply of small quantities of free seeds.
Seed saving and seed sharing are important practices that encourage biodiversity and community self-sufficiency. Gardening is a great way to improve your physical and mental well-being, and growing from seed can be a rewarding and fun process that the whole whānau can enjoy.
Where can I find the Kākano Seed Library?
#NgāPunaWaiora | #NewtownLibrary
#Korimako | #CummingsPark (Ngaio) LibraryHow does it work?
- Help yourself to a packet of seeds
- Sow your seeds at home. Basic planting instructions are provided on packets. Don’t forget to label your planting with name and date.
- Enjoy your harvest!
- Save some seeds from your harvest to donate back to the seed library. We gratefully accept donations of any other excess seeds you have, provided they meet the below requirements.How do I donate seeds?
Bring your surplus seeds to Ngā Puna Waiora Newtown Library or Korimako Cummings Park Library for donation to the Kākano seed libraries.
We accept donations of seeds in any quantity that meet the following requirements:
- Viable
- Non-pest/weed
- Clearly labelled with: name/variety, date collected, source/provenance (i.e. commercial or grown in Karori etc)Please note all donations will be repackaged and relabelled."
FMI:
https://www.wcl.govt.nz/services/at-the-library/kakano-seed-library/#SolarPunkSunday #SeedLibraries #SeedExchange #LibariesRule! #GrowYourOwnFood #GYO #GrowYourOwnKai #NewZealand
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#WellingtonNZ - #KohingaKākano - #Kākano #SeedLibrary
"Improve the self-sustainability of your home by growing your own #kai from seed!
The Kākano Seed Libraries aim to encourage beginners into backyard gardening through the supply of small quantities of free seeds.
Seed saving and seed sharing are important practices that encourage biodiversity and community self-sufficiency. Gardening is a great way to improve your physical and mental well-being, and growing from seed can be a rewarding and fun process that the whole whānau can enjoy.
Where can I find the Kākano Seed Library?
#NgāPunaWaiora | #NewtownLibrary
#Korimako | #CummingsPark (Ngaio) LibraryHow does it work?
- Help yourself to a packet of seeds
- Sow your seeds at home. Basic planting instructions are provided on packets. Don’t forget to label your planting with name and date.
- Enjoy your harvest!
- Save some seeds from your harvest to donate back to the seed library. We gratefully accept donations of any other excess seeds you have, provided they meet the below requirements.How do I donate seeds?
Bring your surplus seeds to Ngā Puna Waiora Newtown Library or Korimako Cummings Park Library for donation to the Kākano seed libraries.
We accept donations of seeds in any quantity that meet the following requirements:
- Viable
- Non-pest/weed
- Clearly labelled with: name/variety, date collected, source/provenance (i.e. commercial or grown in Karori etc)Please note all donations will be repackaged and relabelled."
FMI:
https://www.wcl.govt.nz/services/at-the-library/kakano-seed-library/#SolarPunkSunday #SeedLibraries #SeedExchange #LibariesRule! #GrowYourOwnFood #GYO #GrowYourOwnKai #NewZealand
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When it's raining, might as well sing! Korimako (NZ bellbirds) seem to really like singing when it's raining and we've got at least eight male birds in our garden at the moment performing a concert for us. It's magic!
(The iNaturalist link has the longer recording. This is the shorter radio edit for Mastodon. 😀)
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When it's raining, might as well sing! Korimako (NZ bellbirds) seem to really like singing when it's raining and we've got at least eight male birds in our garden at the moment performing a concert for us. It's magic!
(The iNaturalist link has the longer recording. This is the shorter radio edit for Mastodon. 😀)
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What better thing to do on a grey rainy day that hang out with friends drinking (sugar water)?
The 1st of January 2026 has been a grey rainy day in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, and that's kept our garden sugar water feeders busy with korimako (NZ bellbirds) and silvereyes.
That's included visits from a couple of banded korimako, Right Red and Right Blue Green, whom we've not seen in our garden since mid-August. They were both regular visitors over the winter months and my guess is they both headed up into the Port Hills bush reserves during the Spring to breed.
Right Red was banded in our garden back in March 2022, and Right Blue Green was banded in our garden in July 2024 (both by my wife who's a certified Level 3 bird bander).
I made 29 observations today of bellbirds seen at our feeders, and that included Right Red twice and Right Blue-Green once, one juvenile once, and all the rest unbanded males.
#bellbirds #korimako #nz #SugarWaterFeeder #GardenBirds #birds #Christchurch
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What better thing to do on a grey rainy day that hang out with friends drinking (sugar water)?
The 1st of January 2026 has been a grey rainy day in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, and that's kept our garden sugar water feeders busy with korimako (NZ bellbirds) and silvereyes.
That's included visits from a couple of banded korimako, Right Red and Right Blue Green, whom we've not seen in our garden since mid-August. They were both regular visitors over the winter months and my guess is they both headed up into the Port Hills bush reserves during the Spring to breed.
Right Red was banded in our garden back in March 2022, and Right Blue Green was banded in our garden in July 2024 (both by my wife who's a certified Level 3 bird bander).
I made 29 observations today of bellbirds seen at our feeders, and that included Right Red twice and Right Blue-Green once, one juvenile once, and all the rest unbanded males.
#bellbirds #korimako #nz #SugarWaterFeeder #GardenBirds #birds #Christchurch
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The kōwhai trees are in fabulous full bloom across Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ. They're blooming about a month late this year and are making up for that with a huge number of flowers.
That's making the korimako and kererū in the Cashmere hills happy. The korimako are pollinating the kōwhai flowers, which I guess also makes the kōwhai happy, to the extent that a kōwhai tree can be happy. The kererū, on the other hand, are eating the kowhai's flowers and young leaves.
korimako: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/315198237
kererū: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/315196715#NZ #nature #Christchurch #Ōtautahi #birds #pollination #herbivory #Anthornis #Hemiphaga #kererū #korimako
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The kōwhai trees are in fabulous full bloom across Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ. They're blooming about a month late this year and are making up for that with a huge number of flowers.
That's making the korimako and kererū in the Cashmere hills happy. The korimako are pollinating the kōwhai flowers, which I guess also makes the kōwhai happy, to the extent that a kōwhai tree can be happy. The kererū, on the other hand, are eating the kowhai's flowers and young leaves.
korimako: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/315198237
kererū: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/315196715#NZ #nature #Christchurch #Ōtautahi #birds #pollination #herbivory #Anthornis #Hemiphaga #kererū #korimako
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Here's a male korimako (NZ bellbird) I photographed singing in our garden in Ōtautahi-Christchurch. I just uploaded it to #iNaturalistNZ. (It's a rainy Saturday morning so I'm working through some of my backlog of photos.)
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Here's a male korimako (NZ bellbird) I photographed singing in our garden in Ōtautahi-Christchurch. I just uploaded it to #iNaturalistNZ. (It's a rainy Saturday morning so I'm working through some of my backlog of photos.)
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This is the bird we call Dent Head.
We first saw Dent Head visiting our garden in October 2021. He had such a colossal head injury that we didn't expect he'd last long.
Instead, his head has healed (sort of) and he's been a regular visitor to our garden ever since.
Here's Dent Head yesterday, feeding from one of our sugar water feeders while I was hanging out laundry less than 2 metres away.
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This is the bird we call Dent Head.
We first saw Dent Head visiting our garden in October 2021. He had such a colossal head injury that we didn't expect he'd last long.
Instead, his head has healed (sort of) and he's been a regular visitor to our garden ever since.
Here's Dent Head yesterday, feeding from one of our sugar water feeders while I was hanging out laundry less than 2 metres away.
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#birds #Kōtare #kingfisher #Kōmako #Korimako #Bellbird
This morning's walk included seeing three kōtare and a korimako, as well as countless tūī, and various other song birds. I stood looking up to find which bird was exercising its vocal range and marvelled at all the trills and sounds coming from one small camouflaged bird.
#grateful #alttext #alttextponderings -
#birds #Kōtare #kingfisher #Kōmako #Korimako #Bellbird
This morning's walk included seeing three kōtare and a korimako, as well as countless tūī, and various other song birds. I stood looking up to find which bird was exercising its vocal range and marvelled at all the trills and sounds coming from one small camouflaged bird.
#grateful #alttext #alttextponderings -
Here's a map of all the korimako (bellbirds) I saw and heard in 2022 along my standard run routes through Ōtautahi-Christchurch. Korimako are endemic forest birds that are common in the forests and hill suburbs of Port Hills. They're also now well established in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, and have recently settled into the planted tree patches in the Wigram Retention basin area. They remain rare in the flat suburbs.
#EcologicalMonitoring #WildCounts #Birds #AotearoaNZ #bellbird #korimako -
Here's a map of all the korimako (bellbirds) I saw and heard in 2022 along my standard run routes through Ōtautahi-Christchurch. Korimako are endemic forest birds that are common in the forests and hill suburbs of Port Hills. They're also now well established in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, and have recently settled into the planted tree patches in the Wigram Retention basin area. They remain rare in the flat suburbs.
#EcologicalMonitoring #WildCounts #Birds #AotearoaNZ #bellbird #korimako