I added 19 sets of pictures and processed 19 sets of pictures, so breaking even I guess? Still, I processed some quite big sets of pictures from the past and probably the backlog is smaller than it used to be.
Picture logs still available. As always, pictures are clickable to go to the full gallery.
- Sets of pictures posted: May=19, April=9, March=2
- Total pictures posted: May=755, April=352, March=54
- Total pictures in selection pool: 2339 (April/March 1664)
- Accept rate: 32% (min 15%, max 67%)
- Pictures posted on this page: 127
Just the birds:
Miscellaneous miscellany (January 2023)
- WLG to YYZ (33/61), January 7
- Around Waterloo (19/68), January
- Car retrieval and Tremblant (42/63), January 13 to 15
Rotorua (August 2023)
Weekend in Rotorua for a tournament as usual.
Wānaka skiing (August 2023)
Still a couple of days to process from this trip, but here’s some progress. This was where we saw the kea that just didn’t have enough mass to move the log. I don’t know how to embed video, but I can link to the video. (Doesn’t work on my computer, but works on my phone.)
Kapiti Island (June 2024)
Kapiti Island really has a lot of birds and was the first place that we encountered a kākā in Aotearoa. In fact there was one that had figured out zippers. The overnights from Kapiti Island Nature Tours are pretty pricey, but I was reading my email and noticed an ad for 50% off, so we booked that for Winter 2024. We saw a lot of birds! Not really any new ones, but certainly some better pictures than I’d had previously. I just uploaded to iNaturalist and somehow those pictures got a surprisingly large number of IDs (6 or 7 in some cases).
Oh, and the staff were friendly and the food tasty as well. Maybe the room was not quite one would hope for given the price, but fine for us.
Gisborne/Cooks Cove (December 2024)
One of the last places in Aotearoa we haven’t visited. It’s actually kind of far from Wellington, or anywhere, really.
Two days from Tahiti (December/January 2024)
Continuing to make piecemeal progress on the heap of trips, here are two days from Tahiti, though we really preferred Moorea (not yet shown).
Lima (April 2025)
A trip to attend the IJF/PJC referee seminar in Lima; it’s the second time I’ve been to Peru, though we mostly skipped Lima last time. I also took a day trip to Paracas and saw some birds. They’re almost all different from those around here (whereever here is).
- Trip report: Lima
- Isla Blanca (89/515), April 13
- Paracas Reserve (43/125), April 13
- Around Paracas town (47/205), April 13
Waterloo/Rouge Urban National Park/Ottawa/Montreal (April 2025)
On my way to Estonia, I took a few detours: Brampton, Rouge Urban National Park, Ottawa, and Montreal.
- Waterloo miscellaneous (new: 2/29), April
- Rouge Urban National Park (27/98), April 27
- Ottawa (18/26), April 28
- Montréal (42/110), April 29
Estonia (May 2025)
A trip for a research collaboration in Tartu, via Tallinn.
The List
Making some progress but not visibly so.
2023:
- [January] misc (2)
- [March-July] various cellphone photos
- [August] Ski trip (4)
- [September] Wellington double rainbow, Zealandia (2)
- [September] Waterloo/Calgary/Seattle/Squamish (8)
- [October] Winnipeg, Scarborough and Sydney (3)
- [November] Whitireia Park (1)
- [November] Puke Ariki Traverse (1)
- [November/December] Ouvea, Noumea Zoo, Riviere Bleue, Aquarium, Grandes Fougeres, Pic Malawi (6)
- [December] Seattle, Montreal, Nelson (4)
- Various (4)
2024:
- Various (6)
- [February] Travers-Sabine (7)
- [June] Light Cycles
- [June] Nairn St Cottage
- [June/July] Old Ghost Road (6)
- [July] Melbourne/Cairns (7)
- [August] Catlins (3)
- [September] Skyline
- [September] Japan (6)
- [October] Rotorua (1)
- [October] Ontario
- [October] Pasadena (5)
- [November] Remutakas (1)
- [November] Johnston Hill and Zealandia
- [November] Gisborne (3)
- [December] Cascade Saddle attempt (6)
- [December/January] French Polynesia (8)
2025:
- [January] Montreal
- [January] Regina (almost none!)
- [February] Japan (7)
- [February/March] Kingston (2)
- [March] Edmonton (4)
- [March] Peterborough and Ottawa
- [April] Lima (5)
- [May] Canadian Nationals (4)
- [May] Escarpment Track