Usually, we see many birds on the flax blossoms in December, but this year they didn’t really show up until January. Then, we enjoyed many different species. It was fairly easy to get decent pictures of the tuis.
The bellbird was a different story! These are not only shy, they move fast. Most of the pictures turned out blurry.
These birds are frequently photographed, too.
This bird is Little Miss’s pet. The girls had great fun one day when they let her out in the garden.
I walked into the greenhouse one morning to turn off the water and saw something very strange on top of the mulch. When I looked closer, I decided it was probably a slime mold, so when Mom got into the house I told her about it. We went and had a look, and she agreed with me. It had already started to disintegrate, just an hour after I first saw it! The first picture was taken about 8:00 in the morning.
This was about 2:00 in the afternoon.
3:00 in the afternoon.
Two days later.
This was a fruiting body, where many slime molds join together to reproduce. Look up slime molds–they are fascinating! They are not animal, or plant, or even fungi, but in a classification of their own. They move, and have intelligence–without a brain. Amazing creation of God!