Category Archives: Wildlife

World Whale Day

Posted on February 19, 2021 by krikitarts

Tomorrow, the third Saturday in February, is World Whale Day, which has been observed on this date since 1980. I’d like to offer a few images from two encounters that come immediately to mind. I made the first in the … Continue reading →

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Menagerie Monday: The Talented Tui

Posted on April 5, 2020 by krikitarts

In the text of my post the other day (here) featuring the cheeky little Silvereyes, I mentioned that the other native bird that we love to see visiting and feeding on the blossoms of our abutilon is the tui (Prosthemadera … Continue reading →

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Menagerie Monday: Silvereyes, Spectacular Strangers

Posted on March 29, 2020 by krikitarts

One of our very favorite New Zealand birds is the Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis), also commonly known as the wax-eye. It’s a very small (12 cm / 4.7 inches) passerine songbird. It is officially considered a native, having self-introduced when a … Continue reading →

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WWD—Late Again

Posted on March 28, 2019 by krikitarts

World Wildlife Day was celebrated earlier this month, and I’ve been meaning to add a personal offering. I seem not to have been able to find the time, until now, though, with holiday travel with family to Australia, a visit … Continue reading →

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For the Birds–Again

Posted on December 12, 2018 by krikitarts

I have written about Muriwai Regional Park several times before, and it holds a very special fascination for me. It contains a magnificent beach on the western shore of the North Island, in the Waitakere Ranges, a little less than … Continue reading →

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Frequent Flier

Posted on November 30, 2017 by krikitarts

I’ve been in our New Zealand home for a little over a month now, and I’m (once again) long overdue for a report, however brief. We’re still unpacking boxes and trying to find the room to stow the t00-much stuff … Continue reading →

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Menagerie Monday (4): Lobos de Mar

Posted on November 28, 2016 by krikitarts

My blogging buddy Steve Schwartzman did a post on California’s Point Lobos the other day, in which he mentioned a colony of seals on an island in his photo. They were likely California sea lions (Zalophus californianus), and I was … Continue reading →

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Keys to secret treasures (Part 4)

Posted on August 5, 2016 by krikitarts

My son-in-law, whom I will call Gander, had two main purposes in his Florida adventure, in which he graciously invited me to participate.   The first was, as I have intimated, to feed his boundless passion for snorkeling.  In this he … Continue reading →

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Digression

Posted on July 15, 2016 by krikitarts

I’m sharing my spare time between experiences at the cabin and those that I enjoyed in Florida, and I’d like to digress from tropical subjects to a more contemplative one that came to me just a couple of days before … Continue reading →

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Keys to secret treasures (Part 3)

Posted on July 12, 2016 by krikitarts

Some of you who have been reading my latest two posts may well be interested in more of my recent snorkeling adventures. Rest assured that I will add them—but first, here’s a new character whom I met at the Blue … Continue reading →

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