#Christchurch #Otautahi #NZ Maybe I can go for a walk now?* 😊
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Christchurch residents told to evacuate after 'high-risk explosive' found
- eeek!
- might already know what this is all about?; story is two hours old
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Two people, Tommy and Victor, at a desk with a computer and some a prototype camera system, in a 3D printed green box.
Victor Anton at a desk with a computer and some prototypes of Wildlife.AI's new camera system, in 3D printed green boxes. The cameras promise to be more affordable and much more capable for conservation and biosecurity work, especially for smaller bodied species, than traditional trail cameras.
A photo of Tommy in the core of Travis Wetland at the end of 2025 setting up pitfall traps to monitoring invertebrates. Tommy is surrounded by wetland sedges and flaxes with trees in the background on slightly higher ground.
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 […]
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A photo of an orange traffic cone on a cracked area of footpath. Someone has placed a Hydrangea flower in the top of the traffic cone, as has happened in late February every year in Christchurch since the earthquakes.
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 […]
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A panorama photo from Mount Pleasant Scenic Reserve looking down across Lyttelton Harbour and Port. The foreground is looking over young forest from a track at the base of a cliff.
A photo looking down across the hill suburb of Sumner out into the Pacific Ocean where a container ship is approaching Lyttelton Harbour.
A view down across Christchurch City and the Canterbury Plains farmland to the Southern Alps mountains. In the foreground two road cyclists are riding along the Port Hills Summit Road.
Today I was up in the Port Hills of Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, swapping out some bird audio recorders.
Here are the views.
It is an excellent backyard for a city!
#Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ #scenery
My full-sized photos are on #Flickr […]
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A photo of me riding my bike to work. The photo shows my left hand and the handlebars as I bike down a suburban street. My iPhone and microphone on my handlebars, which I use to count nature as I bike, are in plastic bags.
A photo of a flooded area of the Sparks Road water retention wetland. It's supposed to do this in heavy rains. It soaks up the rain and holds it to reduce the amount of flooding downstream. There are two ducks on the large ephemeral lake (and heavy machinery in the background where a housing subdivision is being built.
A photo of a family of black swans (black adults and grey juveniles) by a planted native wetland.
It rained ,a lot, today in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ. The ducks and black swans didn't seem to mind though. They were some of the species I counted on my wet bike to work.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/339008698 […]
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Classic Sam Ovens (the Dunedin punk artist) style gig poster. That is to say, it's punky and vibrantly trippy, a little chaotic but very well arranged. The headline is WAILER IN THE TRAILER". All text is that crusty scribble style which is reminiscent of carving more than handwriting. The bottom text lists the bands, "Sounds from: FORCED STARVATION + SHOTGUN WEDDING CINDY + FREDDY FUDD PUCKER DEATH&THE MAIDEN + SEEK HELP TICKETS FOR NON GROOVERS + RAMRAID GUARDIANS + SHOBA + CUCK + DRUDGE BUNCHYS BIG SCORE + DISCONTENT " the central figure is a cartoon guitarist with a toaster for a head leaping forward, black band tee partially obstructed by the pink guitar and blue ripped jeans. Above toasterhead, two angry pieces of toast are in an explosive blast. Below toasterhead, between his leaping legs is a campfire with people sitting and dancing around it, punk hair and slightly melting faces, with tents and fir trees in the background. A punk chick and robo-punk dude are in the bottom corners presenting the list of bands. Above this scene, a truck and trailer, separated by the exploding toast seems to have a punk band and speakers blasting out the back, driven by a trippy grim reaper into a crescent moon. The registration plate lists the date 07-03-2026
Starting to get really excited for this!
Hearing back from people I've not seen in a year and haven't danced with for 2 or 3.
If any of my #Ōtautahi or #Ōtepoti mutuals are interested, definitely let me know, be good to see ye
There's an event page for it on […]
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A photo of a brown moth with blotchy brown patterns. This is called Gymnobathra tholodella.
A photo of a grey moth with stripes of darker and lighter greys and grey-browns. This is Eudonia rakaiaensis.
A photo of a grey and brown moth with some subtle orange marks on the back of its wings. This is the Little Orange-Spot Scoparia, Eudonia minualis.
A blurry photo of a brown moth with white blotches on the back of its wings. This is Eudonia dinodes (and all credit to moth expert Neville Hudson on iNaturalist NZ for being able to ID this from my photo).
I'm up to 12 new moth species for our garden this year, thanks to the NZ moth identifiers on iNaturalist and the handy Compare tool on iNat. The Compare tool shows me what species are different between this year and my past years' mothing in my garden. It's handy […]
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A photo of an elegant green moth with all sorts of bold, wavy patterns of different shades of green and white.
This evening I've been continuing to upload my week's home moth light photos to #iNaturalist. I'm up to 64 moth species this week, so far, 8 of which are new species for our garden.
This one is not new but I only saw one of them, once, this week, and every […]
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A photo of the NZ endemic moth Gymnobathra hamatella. It's triangular and light brown with elegant darker brown and pale brown patterns on its wings.
A photo of the NZ endemic moth Gadira leucophthalma. It's a long thin pale brown moth with some dark diagonal stripes.
A photo of the NZ endemic Clematis triangle moth Deana hybreasalis. It's a triangular shape and yellow with a couple of silver-white blotches on each wing. It's got a long snout at the front of its head.
A photo of a small pale brown moth with an orange tufted head. There's a small brown spot on each wing. This is what I've identified as the Case-bearing Clothes Moth Tinea pellionella.
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 […]
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At the end of today I stopped off at Riccarton Bush, the old growth forest fragment in the heart of Christchurch city, NZ. It was lightly raining which made the forest look extra green. The forest is centuries older than the city and it's definitely worth a stop if you're in the area.
Here's […]
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A photo of a small, elegant moth. It's wings are body are covered in large geometric yellow and dark brown shapes, and its antennae are also yellow.
Between festive moths and grumpy moths are elegant moths. Here's one of the Opogona comptella that showed up at my moth light last night.
They'd look good on a runway in any high fashion show.
This one's an Australian species that established in northern NZ […]
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A close-up photo of the head of a small brown moth, and it's looking grumpy.
And, at the opposite extreme of moths from a huge and fluffy gum emperor moth, there was this minute brown Batrachedra moth.
Whereas the gum emperor moth is generally cheery, the Batrachedra looks grumpy. 😄
I saw one at my home moth light in January last year […]
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A photo of a pink pink fluffy moth with a big black-rimmed orange eye spot on each rear wing. It's got big feathery antennae, which means it's a male.
A photo of a big fluffy moth on a hand, with my moth light blazing white on the top right.
A photo of a big fluffy pink moth on a hand,
A closer photo of the head and antennae of this big fluffy pink moth. Even its legs are fluffy, making it look like it's wearing leg warmers.
Check out this big gum emperor moth that visited my moth light at home last night, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ.
I first thought there was a bird flapping in the bushes, before it appeared. This one was pinker than most I've seen, and it happily clambered about […]
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Two greenfinches, small olive green birds with thick beaks, perched on a wire. The bird on the right is bent over under the wire to look at me.
A photo of a yellow admiral caterpillar on a nettle leaf by my thumb. The caterpillar is striped and has greenish-yellow spikes.
A photo of a female mallard duck, brown, on the river. The reflections of the overcast sky and trees on the river create an intricate network of swirling patterns.
A photo looking down on the top of a tan brown mushroom with rays of dark brown.
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 […]
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What is going on with the weather #otautahi? It's supposed to be summer
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Massive blasts of rain in #Chch #Otautahi and then deceptive calm, followed by... massive blasts of rain etc.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItM2...
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Here's a short timelapse of last night's aurora from Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, before my camera battery went flat.
https://flic.kr/p/2rSMH8h
#aurora #Christchurch #nz #Ōtautahi #timelapse
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Here's a recently fledged baby korimako (NZ bellbird) that's settled in our garden this week. It's mother is sometimes coming by to check in.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/334991764
#nz #birds #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #bellbird
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Happy New Year from Te Waipounamu 🌿 Wishing you a great 2026!
#otautahi #waipounamu #southisland #newzealand #aotearoa #inlet #viewpoint #Intatravel #travel #photooftheday #beautifuldestinations #travelgram #yourshotphotographer #worldpix
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A break from rallies but no break from supporting Palestine Saturday 1.00pm Bridge of Remembrance Photo of an information table with two people standing behind it. There are Palestinian flags on either side of the table
Come along to the information stall at the Bridge of Remembrance each Saturday at 1.00pm and meet up with likeminded people
Or come along to find out more about the continuing genocide in occupied Palestine
The next rally and march will be held on 24th of January
#Otautahi #NZPol
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A photo from inside Barrington Mall in Christchurch, NZ. A big sign on the wall has a black and white photo of a woman in a field of flowers next to the words “Shopping is pointless.”
We were out shopping at Barrington Mall today and I was surprised to see this big sign saying “Shopping is pointless” next to a photo of a happy woman in a field of flowers.
My first thought was that it’s some surprisingly on point anti-commercialism messaging […]
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A photo of a red shiny spherical Christmas ornament hung from an inflorescence of a NZ flax, harakeke, which makes upwards curving tubular red flowers for bird pollination.
Somebody has been hanging Christmas decorations on the plants along the walkway through Centennial Park. I photographed this one yesterday hung on a harakeke flower.
Thinking more, perhaps it's some clever pollination experiment! I wonder if these decorations […]
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A photo looking down at Governor's Bay in Lyttelton Harbour from Sugarloaf in the Christchurch Port Hills. The foreground is mostly naturally regenerated native forest.
A photo looking down at Lyttelton Port in Lyttelton Harbour, as seen from Mount Pleasant Scenic Reserve. In the foreground is some of the forest in the reserve. At the port are two large cruise ships.
A photo looking down Lyttelton Harbour from Ahuriri Scenic Reserve. Quail Island is on the right. The hills are starting to dry off as the summer kicks in.
A photo of my hand holding a plastic bag filled with SD cards. Each came out of an AudioMoth today and contains about a week of recorded bird song that I now need to process.
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 […]
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Here's the timelapse I made from our roof yesterday evening of the big southerly thunder storm that swept over Ōtautahi-Christchurch city.
It went from sunny to almost dark really quickly as the thick clouds and rain barrelled overhead.
For full effect make rumbling noises as you watch it as […]
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A photo of a greenfinch, a sparrow-sized yellow-green bird with a thick beak, perched on a branch.
A photo of two fantails (birds) on branches in a woody tangle. The adult is lower left with a distinct dark and white striping to the head, while the juvenile (top left) still has a greyish head. Both have long fan tails.
A photo of a little shag (cormorant) in the river. It's soaked from diving for fish. It's a long, thin bird that is excellent at diving about in the water.
A photo of a redpoll perched on a branch lying on the river surface. It's been drinking. Redpolls are small brown birds with a bright red crown.
Her are some of the birds I photographed yesterday on my weekly run through Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ.
There's a European greenfinch up a tree. There have been lots about in the city the past month or so. I'm not sure where they all come from […]
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A photo I took in September 2014 of a community planting day at Travis Wetland. There are lots of people with spades digging holes and planting baby trees. My full-res photo is on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/15374259456/
A photo of the same site yesterday (24 November 2025), which now feels like a real forest. The canopy is 4–5 metres above my head and there is a lot of wild undergrowth happening. My full-resolution version of this is on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54945075549/
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 […]
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A photo of the sky above suburban houses and gardens. The blue sky is streaked with long white clouds. My full-res photo is at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54940892285/
Another photo of the sky above suburban houses and gardens. The blue sky is streaked with long white clouds. My full-res photo is at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54940576721/
Aotearoa is the land of the long white cloud, and, for part of yesterday afternoon, the skies over Ōtautahi really took that and ran with it.
Here are a couple of photos I took when I was out for a run. The sky was dressed in white stripes.
#nz #clouds #weather #Christchurch #Ōtautahi
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A photo of young yellow goslings of Canada geese, next to two adult birds.
A photo of three tiny little baby birds with long legs dashing across a road. These are ring-necked pheasants and a car saw them and stopped to wait for them to cross (following their mother).
Two grey-brown adult ducks with red eyes, on a pond, with a group of young grey-brown ducklings. These are NZ grey teal.
A photo of two tiny speckled baby birds running across a gravel path. These are California quails.
Here are some baby birds I've seen this week, all in and around Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ.
There's baby Canada geese along Sparks Road (the first time I've seen baby geese in this area of the city): https://inaturalist.nz/observations/327341545
There's […]
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