Locally abundant in gravel around building
A patch of native orchids growing on an old pine stump. With seed capsules
A short distance into the western entrance of McHughs Plantation, Darfield
Yellow mushroom growing in wood chip mulch
Occasional, epiphytic on coastal totara
Microlaena avenacea, locally common on track margin
She's been occupying a huge orb web the past two weeks.
3 Exminster St, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland.
Slime mold - Stemonitis splendens ?
growing on the side of an old log
Occasional, under lowland alluvial podocarp-broadleaved forest
Pneumatopteris pennigera, locally common in highly modified remnant native forest
Occasional, under lowland alluvial podocarp-broadleaved forest
Four birds on edge of reservoir
newly emerged, climbing a water pipe outside the house (photos turned sideways).