I was running down off the hills this afternoon as part of my monthly biodiversity survey of this Port Hills route. I was carrying cameras and a monocular and a wind-shielded microphone plugged into my phone.
A couple of young guys biked up the hill on their mountain bikes.
"Capturing the birds?" one of them asked, curiously.
"Yeah!" I replied.
"Premium," he nodded.
There wasn't time to explain that I was capturing more than bird observations. Still, here are two of my afternoon's "premium" bird observations.
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https://inaturalist.nz/observations/314079214
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/314079214
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My photo from today of a South Island fantail, backlit by the late afternoon western skyline. NZ fantails are small insect-catching birds with long fan-shaped tails.
My photo from today of a kerer奴 (NZ woodpigeon) resting on a branch of a tree lucerne. Kerer奴 are large blue-green birds with a white breast and a read eye and beak. This looks like a younger one.