Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime
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Jos,
I've been to Waiheke, it's dry around the grape vines
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
I’ve been to Waiheke
Oh, welcome to the AK region!
Earlier this evening, flooffy clouds, fancy I felt the tiniest speckle of moisture fall on my arm.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Crane fly
Nothing so exotic here... just unidentified finchy type birds.
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ChrisW, in reply to
just unidentified finchy type birds
Goldfinches like this one, I'm pretty sure.
"The gayest of the finches" said my 1970s Field Guide, revised and updated edition (!) -
Nora Leggs, in reply to
Goldfinches like this one, I’m pretty sure.
“The gayest of the finches”That looks about right, they certainly make very jolly finchy noises.
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ChrisW, in reply to
Sofie - I'm reminded, meant to comment long ago, I love the look of your monarch butterfly against the manuka bark and form. And knowing your original files are big high-res ones, I wonder if you could show it enlarged, crop a copy of your original full-sized file about like so?
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Small crop of japanese anemones this year due to lack of water
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
crop a copy of your original full-sized file about like so?
Sure!
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ChrisW, in reply to
Sure!
Why, thank you, thank you, thank you!
As the manuka stems against ponga and rimu foliage look great, so the butterfly against manuka. Bonus I hadn't anticipated - in addition to the bark and branching pattern rhyming with those of the monarch's wings, also the light spots through rimu at right in the first one cf. the wing spots.
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Very few flowers to choose from in the garden right now.
Starring. Dark Aster.
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Cecelia, in reply to
Beaut colours!
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ChrisW, in reply to
Small crop of japanese anemones this year due to lack of water
But beautifully formed.
Not so aesthetic by conventional reckoning, but the walnut crop is looking good in other ways. Plenty of ground water for the deep rooted.
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Walnut fruits generally form in threes - two at least of these ones getting ready to drop clean nuts. A pair of lacewings lurk on their common stem. The axillary (arm-pit) bud is the makings of next spring's male inflorescence/
flowers.Closer look at the lacewings. I get the impression they're so closely aligned they finish each other's sentences. Enlarge with second click and the upper one seems more than just lurking, looks like a suspicious looking character in disguise as a miniature stealth bomber?
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Fallen walnuts accumulating in the tree's late afternoon shade a few days ago. There's been just enough moisture to keep the shady grass green, but not so much that it grows too fast. But yes, now the early (mostly dud) walnuts have fallen it's time for a complete pick-up and sort then mow the lawn for a smoother surface to ease the harvesting of the main crop.
Ontoit today - the first bucket of good walnuts sorted. Heaps more to come.
A bucket of walnuts has hidden depths.
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Any signs of rain where you are?
Nothing doing yet around Gisborne, but here's an expression of light rain on December grape leaves, for the memory and encouragement.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Any signs of rain where you are?
Yup, we have some going on now. Nice!
Great looking walnuts by the way.
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Gareth, in reply to
Is that a grafted nut? We have Rex and Meyric trees - very tasty nuts and easy to crack.
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Jos,
We've had some drops overnight in the Bay of Plenty, no more so far.
I too photographed a monarch yesterday flapping away...And a mouse/rat as well, though i had to deal with this one personally.
And another metal guru fly, this one on a carrot flower head.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
I too photographed a monarch yesterday flapping away…
Ooh nice blurry monarch.
Hope you didn't have to deal with the mouse with your teeth and claws - and what in the world was Hazel doing?
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ChrisW, in reply to
Is that a grafted nut?
Not grafted. And on the basis that the tree was planted in 1898±1, I presume it's of shall we say, bog standard 'English' variety. Nothing's particularly easy with it, but all very satisfying.
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ChrisW, in reply to
a mouse/rat as well
By the looks of it a young Norway rat, the usual town rat. "Mouse/rat" perhaps an indicator of non-technical interest in the subject, but DOC's rodent identification guide is worth checking out if only for the marvellous cartoon guide to the characteristics of the Norway rat, ship rat, kiore/Pacific rat and mouse, in the first few pages of the pdf.
And those flies are certainly photogenic! More aesthetic substrate for them than I've ever managed too.
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Jos, in reply to
Hazel is 19 and didn't seem to notice it was there. I think her days of tooth and claw are all in her dreams now, I used a trusty spade. :)
Thanks for the info Chris.
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Just felt an Earthquake in Aux! Or, was that St Patricks day revellers?
Nice pics Jos although nothing nice in seeing a Norway Rat.
just hearing.....
Magnitude 4. -
Bob Harvey on RNZ National just few mins ago (yet pre-recorded) saying "Nature is the terrorism of today, and it's coming to Auckland".
EQ now reviewed, mag 3.9, 6 km deep under Motutapu Island. -
Jos,
Obviously the Aztecs were wrong, it's today!
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