This mason wasp was killed after stinging Brad Case on the arm up his sleeve and getting whacked with Brad's hand.
A spider that Ian found on a ribbonwood.
This little green spider is less than 5 mm long.
It was practically invisible sitting on the top of it's grass stalk.
ID based on pic 52 in NZ Spiders an introduction by RR & LM Forster.
Crabs in a rock pool in Little Port Cooper bay, Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand.
This is the New Zealand cancer crab, Cancer novaezealandiae. The female crab is below.
A fairly common catch over the summer months off the Marlborough and Canterbury surf beaches.
This is a fairly small one.
Saw this small insect resting on a willow leaf next to a creek, Marlborough, New Zealand.
It was about 15mm long.
A bachelor flock of scaup drakes in breeding plumage
Swimming pukeko. Perfectly good flyers but as often as not pukeko seem to prefer to walk, wade or swim between wetland islands.
This pair of grebe is building a nest on the shores of Lake Forsyth in a piece of sunken willow. These shots are part of a sequence showing one bird diving for a piece of branch and presenting it to the other with great ceremony and much bobbing and dancing.
Quite a few adult Coots at theTaylor Dam. They were enjoying themselves diving for weed. One scattered a family of mallard ducklings, while a couple had a Pukeko on high alert. The other day also saw big flock at the Sewage treatment ponds near the salt marshes.
Spooked these two birds which were feeding in the shallows.
Harmony incubating eggs on her nest in Otanerito Bay. Unfortunately this nest was unsuccessful; it was destroyed by an unidentified predator.
Photographs by Karen Middlemiss
Dead pukeko found lying on pasture.
Lake Brunner, 130m; roadside grey willow swamp; on Salix cinerea flower; just coming into leaf