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Bjorn Idle
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mastodon 4.6.8At home in Otautahi, Aotearoa
Introverted human. About 70% water, with the rest mostly microbes and awkwardness. Prone to whimsy and self-deprecation.
All photos are my own (except boosted). Am a little red/green colour blind, so things might look different to how I see them...
I try only to boost pictures with #AltText
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Just My Toots:
A Peacock butterfly enjoying some dappled shade on (I think) a Stokesia flower. The colours contrast really nicely, I reckon...
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Butterflies #Insects
Woodland is a great place to be when it's hot - cooler, and full of lovely old trees and moss
#Mosstodon #Trees #Woodland #Nature #NaturePhotography
My first time seeing a Hummingbird Hawk Moth. It's little wings buzz fast like a hummingbird's - this photo was taken at 1/2000 of a second but hasn't frozen the wings completely - and they fly sideways and even a little bit backwards at times just like their namesake. Quite exciting to see one, really!
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Two Blue Tits - adult and juvenile - sharing a callistemon branch as they wait their turn on the suet feeder.
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Mushrooms pushing up amongst the carpet of Pratia in our garden in Autumn
A South Island Robin. Cute and round forest birds, they're friendly and unafraid of humans, following you along a trail to grab any insects disturbed as you walk by
Throwback to a visit to Orkney a couple of years ago, and lichen growing on the standing stones of the Ring of Brodgar.
A slab of cheese bubbling in a pa... Oh wait, no...that's Xanthoria parietina growing on some netting. My mistake...
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Cow parsley leaning toward the light
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Wildflowers #Nature #NaturePhotography
I came across a Kaka using its sharp pointy beak to get in under the bark of this tree. They do this to get at the larvae of wood-boring insects.
Found on Ulva Island, just off Stewart Island Rakiura, last week.
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A few different species all clustered together on a rock. I think the one with raised red bumps (apothecia) might be Haemotomma babingtonii
South Island, Aotearoa
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Some colours from the garden this year:
* an herbaceous Clematis - I think this is 'Arabella'
* Arundinaria auricoma
* Clematis 'Allanah'
* Filipendula
A rusty metal gate hiding some nice lichen on the underside of one of the beams
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Some more lichen detail from the wooden seat outside the local shop. I think there are examples here of crustose (grey crusty one at the very bottom with raised plateaux), foliose (blue-grey lobed one on the lower right that looks like waves in a storm), leprose (powdery yellow one in the bottom right corner that's growing on something else), and fruticose (grey-green branched one top left) species, all in one shot.
These are growing between two of the slats forming the back of the seat, a shadier and more protected spot than the previous post which was of part of the sitting surface of the seat.
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Umbrella Moss on the forest floor, Ulva Island
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A mushroom on Ulva Island growing from the mossy forest floor. Just as I spotted this, a tour guide walked past with a couple of people and said the name of the species but I don't remember what they said - I think it began with "L"?
We had some time on beautiful Stewart Island, Rakiura, earlier this week. The Oban harbour at Halfmoon Bay hosts a number of seabirds, including albatrosses, muttonbirds (Shearwaters), and terns.
I managed to get some shots of this albatross (White-capped, I think) as it ran along the water as part of its take-off.
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Umbrella mosses and lichens in lush greens and purples on the forest floor on (edit: Ulva Island, not) Stewart Island Rakiura.
Some of those mosses look a bit like tarantulas, but I promise they're not. I would've been running away rather than taking photos otherwise...
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A Kererū, or New Zealand Pigeon, showing off its colours
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Lichen on a wooden seat just outside our local corner shop. The seat is pretty heavily colonised by lichen, with different species growing on top, between, and behind the slats.
This is a 40 image photo stack, hand held (well, kneeling on the ground and propped against the bench, holding my breath so as to be as wobble-light as possible).
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A White-capped Mollymawk in the bay at Oban, Stewart Island.
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A Tui looking all puffed up and grumpy above its wattle feathers. Was it something I said...?
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Sugar enjoying the autumn sunshine once more
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...and these are the larger bracts from the same plant that are easy to think of as petals.
So I bought myself a new Macro lens, and have been playing in the garden. Here are a few highlights at the moment:
Thalictrum (I think this is delavayi), Hakonechloa Macra Aureola, Catananche caerulea, and Athyrium Nipponicum (not sure of the variety, I'm afraid!).
#plants #garden #gardening #GardenPhotography #PlantPhotography #Macro #MacroPhotography @plants #OohIBoughtANewLens
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@Lkdc@dmv.community Check out @FediFollows, they collate lists of accounts that post on different subjects
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@deepmud@mas.to Thank you! It was such a lovely place to go, I've been thinking about it ever since...
Have been playing with the new macro lens a little more. I finally got lucky with a picture of a bumblebee enjoying some Hebe flowers.
I think I've come across a method for macro photography that works for me - more details in the #AltText
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@Heliograph
aLliteration Mushroom
...But, if they are Inocybe Lilacina as someone else has suggested (and the description and pics do look like a possibility), then those are apparently really toxic!
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@deepmud Someone else suggested it might be lilacina, and that sounds like what I think the tour guide said. I don't remember hearing any "p" sounds at the time, and from a quick search they don't quite look right.
Lepiota do look like the mushrooms that come up in our garden from time to time, though, so I think you've helped with another identification that I hadn't even asked about 😆
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@quixote@mastodon.nz I hadn't really noticed them before, but I think they're pretty fascinating now!
Our clematis did really well this year. This was probably the best it's looked since we got it...
#BloomScrolling #Plants #Flowers
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@Plantwizard@mastodon.social Yep, native fern to NZ. It's described as having "moderate" hardiness to frost. Full info here if you'd like it (https://www.nativeplants.nz/microsorum-pustulatum.html)
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@ronsboy67@mas.to Yes! Ulva Island is great! I haven't been through my pics from there yet - might take a day or two to get to them, so hopefully some of the photos of Yellowheads, Kaka and Kakariki come out ok 🤞