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Saw about 5 of these this morning, but here's one. :)
White-faced heron aka Matuku moana at Henley Lake Masterton #Whakaoriori
#AoNZ #Birds #Aotearoa 🇳🇿🪶
a white faced heron in flight with a blue whispy cloud background
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Just before sunset the other evening. #AoNZ #Wairarapa #Whakaoriori #NewZealand
view towards the Tararua Ranges at sunset
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Two myna birds, a starling, and a black-backed gull. Not the start of a joke, just some birds hanging out at the local tip :) #AoNZ #birds 🪶🇳🇿
two myna birds and starling are perched on top of a chain link fence, with a black-backed gull flying overhead
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Winner for "headline that is the opposite of the story" award. Do better RNZ! #AoNZ #nzpol
side note: I *wish* we'd become the dumping ground for EVs!!
RNZ headline that says "NZ could become 'dumping ground' for EVs. Caption: the transport minister is dismissing warnings from EV advocates as the governement slashes the Clean Car Standard.
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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This was his cover photo on FB 🐶😍 #nzpol #wairarapa
Kieran McAnulty, MP for Wairarapa, standing in front of a microphone in the hallway in Parliament, with his black/white greyhound sitting next to him.
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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update
SEVERE WEATHER - FINAL UPDATE 6:15PM, THU 23 OCT SH2 Remutaka Hill and SH2 Mt Bruce to Eketahuna are both OPEN. OPEN • SH2 Kaitoke to Featherston (Remutaka Hill) • SH2 Mt Bruce to Eketahuna • SH58 Whitby between Joseph Banks Dr and Postgate Dr • All other State Highways remain OPEN
October 23, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Is this the (long) calm before the storm? We're meant to be getting high winds and even higher gusts (under an orange warning) ... but this is the last 4 hours #Wairarapa #Masterton #AoNZ We went for a walk a while ago and it was just pleasantly breezy (although a big wet).
weather graph showing the last 4 hours with winds at SE6, N13, E9, SE11
October 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Fellow Wairarapa and Wellington friends, take care tomorrow.
"UNDER RED WARNING, STAY HOME UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. STRONG WINDS SEND HAZARDS FLYING" #AoNZ #Wairarapa #Wellington
Screenshot from the Metservice about the Red Wind Warning in Wellington and the Wairarapa. Message from Civil Defence says: "UNDER RED WARNING, STAY HOME UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. STRONG WINDS SEND HAZARDS FLYING"
October 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Saw a luecistic sparrow today! First ever. #luecism #bird #AoNZ 🪶🇳🇿
A white leucistic sparrow on the edge of the footpath A white leucistic sparrow on the edge of the footpath with a regular sparrow next to it
October 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Really Meta? That’s the question I should ask?
Screenshot from FB showing new Nobel Prize winner Mary Brunkow, with the Meta AI prompt: “What is her husband’s profession?”
October 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Caught this tauhou (silvereye) hanging out on the tree outside out window this morning. He was one of about 5 around the place.
#AoNZ #birds 🪶🇳🇿 #NewZealand
silvereye (tauhou) perched on a branch
October 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Heard our first shining cuckoo of the year today #birds #NewZealand #AoNZ #Whakaoriori
Screenshot of the Merlin bird app recording an observation of a shining cuckoo
September 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Our firewood is sprouting #AoNZ must be spring
Pile of logs with some sprouting
September 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Sketch of a child with barbed wire with the words “What do you want to be when you grow up?” “Alive” said the boy. Image posted on FB by Julian Lennon and reshared by Yusuf/Cat Stevens with the title PEACE.
September 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Saw a Takahē taking a bath yesterday. 🪶🇳🇿 #AoNZ #Aotearoa #birds
A takahē with ruffled feathers taking a bath on the edge of a small pond
September 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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So here's a mama duck with her 14 (!!) ducklings on our pond. 🇳🇿🪶 #AoNZ
a female mallard duck swimming on a pond with 14 tiny ducklings around her. In the background is a tree, some grass and flax plants.
September 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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A masked lapwing (aka spur-winged plover) wasn’t happy with us walking nearby.
🪶🇳🇿 #AoNZ #birds
A masked lapwing flying overhead with clouds and blue sky in the background
September 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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I love using Merlin.
List of birds
September 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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It must be spring! #AoNZ #lambs #Wairarapa
two small lambs in the grass. One is white and the other is black and white (black legs/head and white body).
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Today I asked myself, why did the slug cross the road? So I could get a photo!

I saw 4 in about 10 metres of road.

#AoNZ
A slug on the asphalt road
September 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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We've seen more tūī this year on our camellia bush than ever! #AoNZ #Aotearoa #birds 🪶🇳🇿
a tūī sitting on the camellia bush with a pink flower on the right
August 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Three grey teal, perching. Not sure why :)

#AoNZ #birds 🇳🇿🪶
3 grey teal perched on a wooden railing
August 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Snow above the fog #AoNZ #tararua #Aotearoa
Snow capped mountains with a fog bank in the mid ground and green grass with trees in the foreground
August 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Snowy morning #AoNZ
Snow on the hills in the distance
August 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Yes. Here’s the camera info
Camera infographic. Sony SLT-A55V, Lens 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 G SSM. Aperture 5.6 ISO 1600. Shutter 1/250. Focal length 300
August 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM