Here's a Weka

Here's a Weka - typically it'd gone by the time I got my phone out

A Clip at the feeder

A couple of feeders have been put up for Stitchbirds - they've been finding it difficult to establish because while there's plenty of nector to drink, the Tui's and Bellbirds are aggressivley territorial and have bullied them. There's only males in this shot - the females are on nests at the moment. Saw a couple of Bellbirds too but maybe with five male Stitchbirds there they decided to hang back.

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The trip in the kapiti island

We went to the kapiti island by boat.

The kapiti island is very nice and fresh. The island environment is very good.There are a lot of trees and different kinds of birds. It is difficult to climb the hill because it rained
yesterday. So it is really wet .We photographed a lot of pictures of birds on the road. Those birds are nice and cute.





It took us two hours to reach the summit.We are tried and hungry.But the landscape  is nice.We can see the clouds and the sea.

Went to Kāpiti Island yesterday

Superb day (after a week of blurk weather) - 15 students and five adults. Typically, I didn't take any photos of the island - we saw Te Rauparaha's island that he usually chose to live on too.

Getting the talk about conservation on the island - we heard and saw some Saddlebacks - Tieke. This was cool as I'd never seen them. They've only been able to live there since the rats were eliminated as they tend to try to make friends with them (and then get eaten)

Visitors shelter

In the visitors shelter - got a good taste of what to be looking for as we went up to the top.

At the top - Tuteremoana peak. A stiff 501 m, climb, took about 1 hour 20. Not a bad effort.

We'd seen Saddleback. Wekas, Kākāriki, Kākā, Bellbirds, Tui and heard Tomtits

Just been trying to put a couple of video clips in of Stitchbrids and a Weka but the technology is too smart for me

Looking out the lookout

Lookout again

First ever trip to Kapiti Island

What a wonderful day! Kapiti Island lived up to all my expectations and I just loved the wonderful bird life and bird song that surrounded us all day. The view from Tuteremoana was incredible and I'm so grateful that we got to experience this day. Thanks everyone for your great participation.