Sunday, February 23, 2014

Blue-Tounged Lizard

It was on the road sun-baking, but I moved it off the asphalt before it got hit by a car.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Blue Wrens scavenging on the dog's bones.

They come by ever day to do this, a whole family of them.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

A bush cricket

I didn't realize that this is a cricket - the colour fooled me - until someone pointed it out (thanks Jenny S.). The plant it's perched on is a Variegated Pittosporum, also known as Lemonwood or Tarata (the Maori name).