Archiv des Autors: m&m
Karekare II, The swamp and beyond…
A few pictures from a hike along the coast from Karekare to a swamp behind the dunes. The beach at Karekare. Forest with cabbage trees near the tunnel.. A kingfisher (Halcyon sancta vagans) showing off. Feeling a wee bit tired … Weiterlesen
Praying Mantis Attack!!!
Today we had a surprise guest in our yard, a miniature praying mantis. I’ve always been fond of them, maybe because of the never drawn Gary Larson comic with a mantis coming into a singles bar with his decapitated head … Weiterlesen
Muriwai Gannet Colony
Gannets (Morus serrator) on a stack. The Gannet Colony at Muriwai Beach, just north of the Waitakeres, icludes about 1,200 pairs of adult gannets that nest here each summer and make a lot of noise. Apart from birds pestering other … Weiterlesen
Karekare
While Melli was happily stomping up and down mountains on a track nearby, I had a wonderful day living every marine biologist dream of spending the entire low tide examining tide pools at Karekare beach (yup, the beach from the … Weiterlesen
Velella velella and Janthina exigua
„By the wind sailor“, Velella velella On our visits to Piha and Karekare we came upon a lot of miniature sailboats washed upon the beach. Some of them lay drying in the sun, others turned in circles on the edges … Weiterlesen
Piha and Auckland City Walk
The gap Camouflaged anemone (Oulactis muscosa?) and a disgruntled purple rock crab (Leptograpsus variegatus). A short way from the Auckland City Walk Tui (Prosthermadera novaeseelandiaei), visiting Kowhai (Sophora microphylla) treeblossoms.
At the fish market
Along the Auckland harbor, and about fifteen minutes walk from Auckland University, is the fish market. Lot’s of yummie seafood to find there, though I do feel a little bad for the spiny lobster waiting to be cooked in the … Weiterlesen
Spring in our yard..
Finally spring is coming to our yard Manukas, Lavender and bird of paradise flowers are in full bloom. Hopefully it will get warmer soon too.
The Coromandel
On the weekend we took a trip to the Coromandel peninsular. En route we drove along the estuary of the Thames river, with it’s own Seabird Coast. We were rewarded by variable and not so variable oyster catchers, herons and … Weiterlesen
A very special and hurtful moment for a biologist…
A tree weta (Hemideina thoracica) flipping up his hind legs, desperately trying to impress. Today we spent our time in the Garden, planting flowers, manukas, and lifting and carrying logs around from a to b. Only some of the logs … Weiterlesen