#otautahi — Public Fediverse posts

@VWDasher It was a good day for a run. Lots of things to see. Here are four highlights.

There was a male korimako feeding from the last flowers on a Eucalyptus leucoxylon. I like how the sun caught his red eye.

I saw a pair of battling European blackbirds. They didn't break up their skirmish until I was right next to them.

I found a grub of the first Sphenella fascigera fly I've seen this season (they're a pretty little native fly that makes galls in groundsels).

And, near the end of my run there was a happy kererū perched in the sun up a tree.

(I realised that I forgot to correct my camera's clock for daylight savings so I'll fix that with exiftools before sharing these on iNaturalist.)

#nature #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nz #birds #insects #Tephretidiae

@VWDasher It was a good day for a run. Lots of things to see. Here are four highlights.

There was a male korimako feeding from the last flowers on a Eucalyptus leucoxylon. I like how the sun caught his red eye.

I saw a pair of battling European blackbirds. They didn't break up their skirmish until I was right next to them.

I found a grub of the first Sphenella fascigera fly I've seen this season (they're a pretty little native fly that makes galls in groundsels).

And, near the end of my run there was a happy kererū perched in the sun up a tree.

(I realised that I forgot to correct my camera's clock for daylight savings so I'll fix that with exiftools before sharing these on iNaturalist.)

#nature #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nz #birds #insects #Tephretidiae

@VWDasher It was a good day for a run. Lots of things to see. Here are four highlights.

There was a male korimako feeding from the last flowers on a Eucalyptus leucoxylon. I like how the sun caught his red eye.

I saw a pair of battling European blackbirds. They didn't break up their skirmish until I was right next to them.

I found a grub of the first Sphenella fascigera fly I've seen this season (they're a pretty little native fly that makes galls in groundsels).

And, near the end of my run there was a happy kererū perched in the sun up a tree.

(I realised that I forgot to correct my camera's clock for daylight savings so I'll fix that with exiftools before sharing these on iNaturalist.)

#nature #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nz #birds #insects #Tephretidiae

@VWDasher It was a good day for a run. Lots of things to see. Here are four highlights.

There was a male korimako feeding from the last flowers on a Eucalyptus leucoxylon. I like how the sun caught his red eye.

I saw a pair of battling European blackbirds. They didn't break up their skirmish until I was right next to them.

I found a grub of the first Sphenella fascigera fly I've seen this season (they're a pretty little native fly that makes galls in groundsels).

And, near the end of my run there was a happy kererū perched in the sun up a tree.

(I realised that I forgot to correct my camera's clock for daylight savings so I'll fix that with exiftools before sharing these on iNaturalist.)

#nature #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nz #birds #insects #Tephretidiae