Aotearoa, 2025/26

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Marlborough

Punga Cove: gloomy and windy. QC Track: sunny and windy.

Weka on the Cullen Point Coastal track; Pelorous Sound; Kaikoura -- wet and very windy (photos taken on day winds reached 290 kph on east coast).

Okarito

White-faced Heron

Fernbird: According to DOC, fernbirds are rarely seen because of their secretive behaviour and excellent camouflage.

Shag; Pied Oystercatchers

Lagoon: sunrise, sunrise, daybreak, daybreak, morning (Tasman and Cook at top right; White-faced Heron, kayak in foreground).

Lagoon: from kayak, pied oystercatcher, white heron, Alps.

Coastal walk and pack route to Three Mile Lagoon: on the coastal walk; shags; same shags; Three Mile Lagoon.

From the Tower, Okarito

Lagoon: sunrise; from kayak; from kayak; from kayak on gloomy day.

Rees Valley

Down valley, Mount Earnslaw, up valley.

Glenorchy Lagoon

Native birds include: pied stilt/poaka, pied oystercatcher/torea, bittern/matuku-hurepo, shoveller/kuruwhengu, grey teal/tete, grey duck/parera, scaup/papango, falcon/karearea.

Lake Te Ana-au

Evening walk. Morning bike ride.

Lake Hauroko

Lake Hauroko: from shore; from P556; from P556; descent of track in morning fog; Coriolus versicolor.

Glacier Burn, Whakatipu

Punamahaka/Waikamahaka

1. Puteketeke. 2. Puteketeke with chicks on back. 3. Puteketeke feeding chick. 4. Little shag/Kawau pata. 5. Coot and chicks.

Rakiura

Garden Mound Track: Little Beach. Old-growth rimu trees, rare near Oban. Ditto. Mount Anglem from top of Garden Mound (162m).

Kaka: checked out the grill; got bored; went back to pulling grubs out of trees.

Ringaringa Beach.

Golden Bay Track: Near Golden Bay; Ulva Island; The mother ship in Peterson Inlet; Golden Bay.

Ulva Island: West End Beach; Sea lion snoozing; Yellow-crowned parakeet.

Horseshoe Point Track: from track; from point; track.

Fern Gully Track.

Ackers Point Track.

Fuchsia Walk (lost Oystercatcher). Raroa Walk.

Arum lily, Wohlers Road; Peterson Inlet from near Ringaringa Point; Peterson Inlet from Ringaringa Point.

Local

Rainbow in Five Mile Creek. Fire on Christmas Day. Five Mile Creek. Sunset over Cecil Peak.

Morning, afternoon, and evening.

Sunrise.

Quail. Flax.