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The juveniles have black bills and brown legs.

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Nasty, but sometimes there are heaps on our beach.

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I've seen a couple of these in the Ōpārara with half and half fertile/sterile fronds.  Very unusual for Small kiokio.  The fronds are usually one…

Fruiting now along the Ōpārara Arch track.

Looks like Silver Beech except for the problem with the red fruit...

There's a nice big one right near the top of the new section of the Ōpārara Arch track.

Look out for these ripening up along the Heaphy and at the school.  Don't eat them!

These are just everywhere on the bluff.  Been in NZ since 1867.

Not doing so well...

Eaten the next day by a cat :(

A crazy huge fungus popping up in the rotting buttresses of beech trees.  I've seen them on the Mirror Tarn - Moria Gate walk, at Mirror tarn, and…

Amalda australis - Wikipedia

Tanea zelandica - Wikipedia

Keep an eye out for this one.  It has the coolest name.  It's a liverwort, not a moss.

Some of these are fruiting now up in the Oparara.  The pigeons love them!

We also have this one…

Along the banks of the river near the limeworks on the Fenian road.  Nasty weed.

This stuff is just everywhere, flowering all over the place this summer.

We also have this one:  …

Zotov's Bastard Grass - that's just the craziest name!

Heaps of this in the Oparara.

This has a deliciously sweet scent.  It is native here, found along river banks and also on tracks where river sand and gravel has been used.  It…

Heaps on the roadsides around Mossy Burn

Flowering like crazy, early this season.