#otautahi — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #otautahi, aggregated by home.social.
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I found a tūī in Victoria Park this afternoon!
These birds are still rare around Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, so finding one is always a treat.
It put on a grand concert for me too. Have a listen.
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I found a tūī in Victoria Park this afternoon!
These birds are still rare around Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, so finding one is always a treat.
It put on a grand concert for me too. Have a listen.
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I found a tūī in Victoria Park this afternoon!
These birds are still rare around Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, so finding one is always a treat.
It put on a grand concert for me too. Have a listen.
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I found a tūī in Victoria Park this afternoon!
These birds are still rare around Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, so finding one is always a treat.
It put on a grand concert for me too. Have a listen.
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I found a tūī in Victoria Park this afternoon!
These birds are still rare around Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, so finding one is always a treat.
It put on a grand concert for me too. Have a listen.
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I know I’m probably being a big sook, but it feels way colder than 10 degrees C in #Ōtautahi at the moment. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have a frost tomorrow. 🥶
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We had Silent Hill weather in Ōtautahi this morning, but it’s clearing up nicely.
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"Saturday 2 May & Sunday 3 May: 10am – 5pm
OPEN ACCESS – just turn up"https://openchch.nz/buildings/otautahi-in-bricks-exhibition/
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My day today included *two* puddle bathing piwakawaka, NZ fantails, at two separate city reserves.
It's getting a bit dry in the city and small puddles are getting popular.
Meep Meep!
https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/350755648
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After recent media stories about butterfly declines in New Zealand, centred around one transect in Nelson, it's heartening to see in Stacey Lewthwaite's graphs that kahukura and monarch butterflies have not declined around Christchurch. That's in the last two decades along my 78 km of transects.
#EcologicalMonitoring #butterflies #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ
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On Sunday 26 April, I'll be leading another nature walk in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, this time from the Sign of the Takahe to the Botanic Gardens. That's part of the four-day City Nature Challenge.
It's a terrific walk designed to take us through many of the city's nature filled nooks and crannies.
Again, all welcome. We leave from the Sign of the Takahe (by the bus stop for the No 1 Cashmere bus) at 9:45 am.
If you don't have the time to commit to the full walk, you can join us for the first part walking to the South Library, or from the South Library to the Art Gallery, or for the final stint from the Art Gallery to the Botanic Gardens.
Below are some photos from the previous two years we've done this walk.
https://ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/whats-on/event/takahe-to-taone-hikoi-2
#CityNatureChallenge #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ #NatureWalk #iNaturalistNZ
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If you're in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ, next Sunday, and are keen for a nature walk, well, you're in luck!
As part of the city's annual Walking Festival, Noah Fenwick and I will be leading a walk/explore around Waikākāriki Horseshoe Lake. We're two local iNaturalist fanatics and ecologists and are keen to see what we can find around this restored city wetland.
The walk starts at 10 am and will go for about three hours.
All welcome!
https://ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/whats-on/event/nature-walk-through-waikakariki-horseshoe-lake
https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=109378&subview=map
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Of the flies I saw today, this one is my favourite. It's the ngaro tara or three-lined Hover Fly (*Helophilus seelandicus*), a New Zealand endemic species.
I like the sleek colour pattern. It would not look out of place on a coverable sports car.
While the adult is sleek, the larva is a rat-tailed maggot with a long snorkle out its rear end that allows it to eat decomposing matter in stagnant water.
I saw this while on my weekly biodiversity run this afternoon through Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ.
https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/348889144
#diptera #flies #entomology #nz #Syrphidae #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #iNaturalist
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You read it here first! There will be two issue 53 covers, photographed by Dave Richards (Jess S. in black) and Jon Moe (actress Samantha Rose Baldwin in white). Jess will appear in most markets while Samantha will initially appear in digital editions retailed by Scopalto. More details soon, and you can order our new print number at https://lucire.biz/product/lucire-issue-53/ #Lucire #FashionMagazine #fashion #mode #moda #MagazineDeMode #SamanthaRoseBaldwin #NYC #NY #USA #Aotearoa #NZ #Ōtautahi
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You read it here first! There will be two issue 53 covers, photographed by Dave Richards (Jess S. in black) and Jon Moe (actress Samantha Rose Baldwin in white). Jess will appear in most markets while Samantha will initially appear in digital editions retailed by Scopalto. More details soon, and you can order our new print number at https://lucire.biz/product/lucire-issue-53/ #Lucire #FashionMagazine #fashion #mode #moda #MagazineDeMode #SamanthaRoseBaldwin #NYC #NY #USA #Aotearoa #NZ #Ōtautahi
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You read it here first! There will be two issue 53 covers, photographed by Dave Richards (Jess S. in black) and Jon Moe (actress Samantha Rose Baldwin in white). Jess will appear in most markets while Samantha will initially appear in digital editions retailed by Scopalto. More details soon, and you can order our new print number at https://lucire.biz/product/lucire-issue-53/ #Lucire #FashionMagazine #fashion #mode #moda #MagazineDeMode #SamanthaRoseBaldwin #NYC #NY #USA #Aotearoa #NZ #Ōtautahi
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You read it here first! There will be two issue 53 covers, photographed by Dave Richards (Jess S. in black) and Jon Moe (actress Samantha Rose Baldwin in white). Jess will appear in most markets while Samantha will initially appear in digital editions retailed by Scopalto. More details soon, and you can order our new print number at https://lucire.biz/product/lucire-issue-53/ #Lucire #FashionMagazine #fashion #mode #moda #MagazineDeMode #SamanthaRoseBaldwin #NYC #NY #USA #Aotearoa #NZ #Ōtautahi
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You read it here first! There will be two issue 53 covers, photographed by Dave Richards (Jess S. in black) and Jon Moe (actress Samantha Rose Baldwin in white). Jess will appear in most markets while Samantha will initially appear in digital editions retailed by Scopalto. More details soon, and you can order our new print number at https://lucire.biz/product/lucire-issue-53/ #Lucire #FashionMagazine #fashion #mode #moda #MagazineDeMode #SamanthaRoseBaldwin #NYC #NY #USA #Aotearoa #NZ #Ōtautahi
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So. Much. Colour!!
Here's my pick of the sunset photos from this evening. When Ōtautahi-Christchurch turns on a sunset, it goes all in.
(My full-resolution photos, plus a few more, are at Flickr, eg https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/55194998475/)
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Here are four things I saw yesterday in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ.
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It's that time again in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, when the fruit on the te kouka cabbage trees are at peak ripeness. That brings in the kererū to parts of the city.
Here are some of my photos of kererū eating te kouka fruit in the city from this long weekend. It includes what I think is the first time I've seen a kererū on Rose Street (that's on one of my fortnightly survey routes, which I've run since 2008).
https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/347375376
#kererū #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nz #birds #iNaturalistNZ #frugivory #UrbanEcology #nature
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#Listening to Straightlining by hardcase #Otautahi rockers AVON DADS, released in 2025;
https://avondads.bandcamp.com/album/straightlining
#HatTip to Freak the Sheep, who played this funny and rather catchy track on the March 12 edition of their show on 95bFM. Which I catch up with from The Tron via their podcast feed;
https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/16767/16982213/freak-the-sheep-w-chris-cudby-march-12-2025
They've been playing a lot of hardcase tunes on the show of late. Long may this continue!
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It was lovely to attend the opening/blessing of Te Kaha One New Zealand Stadium in #Ōtautahi #Christchurch.
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Walls of #Christchurch #Otautahi, #shotoniphone 3x telephoto
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Scarborough beach, #Christchurch #Otautahi
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"“The plans originally came to the Council as part of the consent process – with the earliest dating back to the No 1 Pumphouse in 1881. ..."
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In collaboration with Christchurch City Libraries some of the plans in the collection have been digitised, with still more to come.Search the collection online via ArchivesSpace, explore the digitised plans or learn more at Christchurch City Council Archives : Christchurch City Council."
#NZHistory #Architecture #Ōtautahi
https://www.newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/archives-preserve-citys-architectural-plans
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Here's the view flying in to #Christchurch #Otautahi this arvo
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Great food at new family run Korean #restaurant "Seoul Jib" in boxed quarter (where Szechuan kitchen used to be.
Illustrated meals 'Baekban' were $33 each. Very very tasty.
Only open from 5pm for now.
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#Ōtautahi #Christchurch peeps: any good local spots for acquiring rennet?
(If not, other source recommendations welcome!)
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I spent Thursday morning this week at Ōruapaeroa-Travis Wetland, the largest freshwater wetland in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ. Once destined for more housing, the local community's protests led to the city buying up the land and restoring it for nature.
I'm helping PhD student Tommy Copeland to monitor the invertebrates of the wetland. Tommy's both repeating traditional survey methods used in a survey in the mid-1990s, and trying out new methods.
Enter Victor Anton from Wildlife.AI, a NZ-based non-profit dedicated to using artificial intelligence tech to improve conservation. On Thursday Victor gave Tommy one of their first field-ready prototypes of a new camera system with app control and built in machine learning image recognition. Tommy's going to be trialling it to see how he, with the Travis community group, can monitor invertebrates with this camera system.
Stay tuned.
#EcologicalMonitoring #Conservation #invertebrates #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nz #TravisWetland #WildlifeAI
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Ōtautahi/Christchurch peeps - please share this far and wide. Check out ‘Cup of Rest’ café in Ferrymead, and soon! You won’t be disappointed. #cupofrest #supportlocal #chch #aonz #kahurangi #christchurch #ōtautahi #edit #persian
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Ōtautahi/Christchurch peeps - please share this far and wide. Check out ‘Cup of Rest’ café in Ferrymead, and soon! You won’t be disappointed. #cupofrest #supportlocal #chch #aonz #kahurangi #christchurch #ōtautahi #edit #persian
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Ōtautahi/Christchurch peeps - please share this far and wide. Check out ‘Cup of Rest’ café in Ferrymead, and soon! You won’t be disappointed. #cupofrest #supportlocal #chch #aonz #kahurangi #christchurch #ōtautahi #edit #persian
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I like how the people of Ōtautahi-Christchurch have the habit of quietly placing flowers in the city's road cones to commemorate the people that died in the 2011 earthquake.
It is worth remembering how everyone in the city came together to help each other out after the quakes. That was the heart of the city right there.
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Each season I do four nights of moth lighting in my garden in suburban Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. My summer moth lighting this year started on Saturday. I photograph every moth that settles at my light and today I've been uploading my photos to #iNaturalist.
I've been doing this consistently each autumn since 2015 and every season each year since (at least) 2021. You might think I would have found all the moth species that visit my garden, but no.
So far I've finished uploading Saturday's moth photos and have found six new species to our garden. Here are four of them.
There's the endemic moth *Gymnobathra hamatella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337290749There's the "nationally vulnerable" endemic species *Gadira leucophthalma*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337263605There's the endemic Clematis triangle *Deana hybreasalis*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285888Also, less ideal, there's the introduced Case-bearing Clothes Moth *Tinea pellionella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285916#mothodon #moths #Lepidoptera #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ #insects #EcologicalMonitoring
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Here are four of the many things I found taking my camera for a run this afternoon in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ.
Curious European greenfinches on a wire (one twisted around to look at me): https://inaturalist.nz/observations/335927660
A late instar caterpillar of an Australian yellow admiral butterfly that I found feeding on a European dwarf nettle: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/335927656
A mallard duck swimming on the Heathcote River with the *best* reflections (I took a lot more photos of the swirling patterns on the silver water): https://inaturalist.nz/observations/335927802
A mushroom of what I think is the native *Pluteus readiarum*, growing on the dead stump of a planted ribbonwood tree: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/335927658
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Here's a recently fledged baby korimako (NZ bellbird) that's settled in our garden this week. Its mother is sometimes coming by to check in.
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Somebody has been hanging Christmas decorations on the plants along the walkway through Centennial Park in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. I photographed this one yesterday hung on a harakeke flower.
Thinking more, perhaps it's some clever pollination experiment! I wonder if these decorations make the red harakeke flowers more visible to the local birds (korimako and starlings and silvereyes) that feed from these flowers.
#Christchurch #Christmas #ChristmasDecoration #Ōtautahi #plant #botany #Phormium #NZflax
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The last three days I've been along the Port Hills of Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, doing my monthly biodiversity surveys. Saturday was my 117th run up through Victoria Park and Sugarloaf, and today was my 80th bike ride along the Summit Road from Cashmere.
Since September this year I've added 27 AudioMoths along the routes to record bird songs, so now I come back with an iPhone filled with audio notes, a camera filled with photos, and now a pocket filled with bird songs to analyse.
Here are some photos of the scenery from each of the three days, plus today's handful of bird song.
#EcologicalMonitoring #nz #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #wildcounts
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St Andrew's College Prizegiving ceremony has another musical hit this year with their Aotearoa Medley (You may remember the same ceremony in 2023 went viral with their rendition of Stairway to Heaven). This year they sang a number of classics from the Aotearoa songbook (Don't Dream it's Over, Aotearoa, In Colour) including some in Te reo Māori. Nice. ( I know these kids have rich parents who can avoid to buy them expensive musical instruments - and extra lessons no doubt - but the kids are alright and look like they are having fun. Don't @ me.)
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I'm sure this has memories for some people I know.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360902693/whole-building-wow-blast-past-1980s-tech-palace-sale
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One of the sites at Travis Wetland where we set up our invertebrate sampling yesterday was in the new southern woods.
I helped with a planting day for this back in 2014, when it was still a wet field. Now, it feels like a real forest, with a canopy well above my head and lots of wild seedlings scattered about underneath. It's amazing how quickly trees grow when the ground is always wet.
Here are two photos of the same part of the wetland in September 2014, when trees were being planted, and now. It's like magic!
Many of the trees planted here were sourced from Pūtaringamotu, Riccarton Bush, the old growth fragment of kahikatea swamp forest in central Christchurch. Pūtaringamotu is a much drier site than it was when the city was founded so it's fantastic to see a new swamp forest emerging.
(Now we just need to rein in our carbon emissions to stop the impending sea level rise that will otherwise submerge all these sites in a few centuries.)
#UrbanEcology #ForestRestoration #wetland #nz #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nature
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"Kairos opened seven years ago and started with a free store where it fed 40 people a night with 300 scones. Now, the organisation rescues more than three tonnes of food from supermarkets, cafes and other suppliers every day, supporting 62 foodbanks and community groups."
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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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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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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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Good turn out for the march today.