Spring is here (it officially starts on September 1st) and Noreen has returned with the camera. We'll put up some of her pictures from Europe when she recovers from jet lag but in the meantime I thought I'd take a few around the garden as it it starting to show signs of life. Here are some of the daffodils and violets
and our
daphne bush.
I have been planting
coprosma up the bank. Here are specimens of two differnt coloured species (yellow-green in the foreground and red in the centre).
We went for a walk down to the Botanic Gardens. Here are Noreen, Nico and Jenny with her new camera taking a photo of me taking a photo ...
We have a fair number of birds in our garden.
Tui love to perch up in the tall trees. I shot this against the light and used some fancy processing to get some contrast in the image.
We saw this one in the Botanic Garden and are not sure exactly what it is. Our best guess is a
ruru (scroll down to the bottom of that document) or possibly a juvenile
New Zealand Falcon (Karearea) but it seems a funny time of year for that.
[Update: it appears it is a karearea - see the comments]
and our daphne bush.
I have been planting coprosma up the bank. Here are specimens of two differnt coloured species (yellow-green in the foreground and red in the centre).
We went for a walk down to the Botanic Gardens. Here are Noreen, Nico and Jenny with her new camera taking a photo of me taking a photo ...
We have a fair number of birds in our garden. Tui love to perch up in the tall trees. I shot this against the light and used some fancy processing to get some contrast in the image.
We saw this one in the Botanic Garden and are not sure exactly what it is. Our best guess is a ruru (scroll down to the bottom of that document) or possibly a juvenile New Zealand Falcon (Karearea) but it seems a funny time of year for that. [Update: it appears it is a karearea - see the comments]
