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closely enough there s a full swath of greasy upland flora to satisfy your wildest herbiphilic fantasies several spots had some epic pansy fests with meadows full of all the colours of the rainbow bar most of the colours of the rainbow nice to w nk off the background landscape perspective to full effect i ve always appreciated and respected lower and higher plants but its a one in one out system in terms of my memory for even their vernacular names so being in the company of some epic botanists i am making a renewed effort to learn assimilate regurgitate their names then i usually need to quickly defibrillate as my heart has exploded with the effort and new grip the more you learn the more you know ha state the oblivious anyways the above are two different mineralised growth forms of mossy saxiphrage found on old mining spoil heaps just a few feet apart such intra specific variation in close proximity seemingly forming distinct colonies could easily be seen as part of an evolutionary event though i made that up on the spot so could be wrong however the genius of dub penetrates so deep into the every florafice i may just make sense what i have dedicated more focussed penetrations of thought is the consequences for insect conservation such obvious variation in how a single species reacts to different growing conditions really crystallises the impacts of human chemicals and habitat structure on insect niches another plant what i did good learn is the marsh marigold phwwwaaar i d wear that in my hands any day seemingly happy with this last year s hot warm and dry weather it has been out in force what a force of yellow it is and not just a pretty facade though proper floral and niche resource check out the green veined white nectaring while a may fly shelters below niche off though i am a leper by and large i m strongly considering becoming a apiphile with fluffy queen bilberry bumblebees nest hunting around me as i do luncheon on the high tops its hard not to feel inspired by their beauty and upland specialism they are almost better in flight so for once being inept having a bridge camera enabled me to jam a flight shot of that bum here s another classic pollinator interaction common carder bee on bugle banging bugle clumps are proving to be an essential early nectar source in the uplands each patch was full of insects i had visceral flashbacks to running around lowland grasslands in my youth focusing on microscopic heterogeneous i knew it then as dffierent patches of thistle ragwort etc as they were equally enticing for insects and their predators one last butterfly a small heath being an upland specialist by hiding in the sheltered sunny side of a tussock of grass on a fell top great strategy for gearing up for the next 10 feet flight here s some of that dry stone wall micro niche action here a sheltered side was utilised by a few male crambus lathoniellus as they fluttered weakly in search of female scent plumes what s more gripping than dry stone wall niches green hairstreak dry stone wall niches come on i added green hair and streak to dry and stone gotta be an improvement the upland green hairstreak populations are proper spin outs using walls as trees and displaying kind of convergent behaviour with grayling by flattening themselves against the dark stone to warm up absolutely mind blowingly beautiful insects and some serious behaviour have a ton more pics fill your boots as if you were getting lepped out here s a mother shipton so called by the similarity of wing markings to the traditional portrayal of a witch as a gnarled old person woman how about this found an emerging fox moth got over excited and id d it as a northern eggar then realised i was a stringy almost bastard and amended my initial id what a furry beast heaving itself out of the mat of tormentil at ground level another mainstay of sunny upland days the common heath check out them feathers one gasp last gasp lep gasp pyrausta purpuralis on cuckoo flower even when they are slightly worn they are just too much for my feverish mind to handle i ll depart in a dust of particulate or particularly beefing uplanders and their habitat and predator what a place get yerself up fun times watching two male cuckoo fight a few feet in front of me this male won saw me then flew a few feet so he could start pumping his noise into my ears at head level on the now infamous dry stoners lapwing chick two chats and their habitat ring ouzel and wheater some magic melodies emanating from these charismatic species that sit well over the basal sound of wader song where there s food stoats are about up here cool to watch a proper predator prey interaction as they search for bird eggs and chicks corrr i m spent thanks for coming i ll be near a beck posted by will scott at 09 23 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 12 march 2016 are you taiko the piss mate dub birder experiencing the ultimate chatgasm aboard the mighty pyramid 10 000 albatross 1 rock throw in some guano and you ve got a porno pic by dan burgin after the echo of new years had just about reverberated out of my cranial stations a new vibration startled the old grey matter a message relatively out the blue offering 5 weeks on the legendary chatham islands volunteering for the infamous chatham island taiko trust if im honest they had me at 5 weeks and so it was thus that i travelled abreast a great ancient steel or alloy ahoy albatross the 800 or so kilometers of arid pacific to the hallowed peaty turf a real place of isolation and lack of development superficially untarnished by humans destructive hand looking wild and rugged as the wilds of scotland or moors of the westcountry an awing beauty but of course like so many places across the planet a misleading one as this was until the arrival of the various forms of people a completely forested island alive with huge abundances of seabird and terrestrial life mostly endemic which soon disappeared with the bush and introduction of mammals and marsupials aka predators competitors as such the work i was involved with echoed much of new zealand s plight predator control or exclusion a really eye opening experience and super rewarding to contribute to knowing every dead possum cat and rat was exponentially benefiting the endemic flora and fauna that in reality has know adaptation or strategy of dealing with these recent introductions however it wasn t all same as with radical translocation projects of species like chatham islands albatross a critically restricted and therefore vulnerable crippling blow your tits off procellariiforme giving me the privileged opportunity to perch on the sharp end of the wedge it s difficult to describe the graft and crippling nature of the work and er nature so here s some pics and garbled verse yo endemic form of the new zealand fantail stonkingly common and charismatic endemic chatham warbler not too dissimilar to the mainland s grey warbler in song but clearly island pressure have transformed the in my opinion dullish grey into a knee cappingly good island hermit chatham island pigeon again similar to the mainland but bigger fatter and brighter check out two tone bill suits you sir despite the latent destructive impression of bareness where whence forest came before it still makes for a rectal tighteningly beautiful vista home to even more mega triple neck spinners chatham island oystercatcher yes endemic again those bright pink legs were divine darling went well with my sunburn dont you know pip pip cup of tea although most of the blue penguins had departed after their post breeding moult this tardy individual provided an excellent opportunity to get reet up in it s grill some believe they are a different subspecies or even full species looks like a normal penguin to me though chatham island pipit fairly distinct from its mainland counterpart however not recognised as such great little birds that had me flinching everytime they called thinking a dick s pip was going over until i remembered i m in new zealand pigs i spent a great deal of time whacking the old bush as it were giggidy enjoying some of this unique habitats residents including red crowned parakeets more specifically the chatham island form totally criptastic birds and radically different from anything native in the uk as such i spent a decent bit of time learning their habits so eventually i may train them to form a super army to eradicate all i see as unfair in the planet it didn t go well however so i contented myself to quietly waiting and watching getting more and more of a feel of there perky little green buggers behaviour and ecology whilst generally getting manic and tarnished by their beauty after a while i realised they were just bloody crossbills with those honking great head spades and all the frass and such that spilt to the ground funny to similarities you subjectively draw between vastly different birds bluer than david carmeron s lobotomized ballsack with camp set amongst the rolling paddocks of the legendary bruce and lizz tuanui farm it was not uncommon for to see the odd cow or sheep or lapwing ps might be a sheep the hallowed predator fence truly epic achievement by the most dedicated of conservationists soon to be teeming with tubenoses big and small whilst hyper restricted landbirds grovel within its protected confines perhaps the moment i was most excited about was the chance to walk between chatham albatross on their only colony the pyramid the purpose besides shear sexual stimulation and bohemian pleasure was to translocate chicks to form a satellite colony in the newly predator fenced area on main chatham so all eggs weren t in the same basket per se beautiful calm conditions dominated our skin for weeks for that persistent sw swell finally died enough to facilitate landing and removing chicks safely a very long day but without a doubt one of my best check dem picture word two time sisters and brothers get in a boat see buller s albatross fantastic little alberts that stayed with us for most of the journey southern coastline of main chatham complete with fogfall in the uk these may be gannets but this is the chathams and they albatross g a huge swell and circling birds greated our approach to the sacred rock thar she blows hard to see why it s called the pyramid rafts of them the best albatross look at that bill against the clean grey and white patternation holy chatham batman yes robin i just came too bbbaaazzzzooock birds massing around the peaks nests were all over the rock with presumably younger inexperienced birds nesting on the peripheral more accessible for skuas human harvesters in the past while older experienced birds in their prime got the prime real estates in the caves and cliff true or not it was an unforgettable sight sound and being a seabird colony smell it is unnatural what these birds do to me no i retract that it is totally natural appreciation of nature and birds is what made us humans great while disconnection and unappreciation is what will end us oooo matron postulating was common among the non breeding courting birds at lower levels lots of feet slapping too an artifact of porr walking ability or staking their claim who knows holy maccaroni penguin look there s bloody tons of them in a colony albatross trossing off mate just cant get enough of that face colour juxtaposition stick that on page 3 baby we had some time to quickly explore the colony before getting down to running the rocks and moving chicks from the selectors to the boat so i jumped straight into an area containing both chicks with attending adults and courting non breeders the noises and styles blew every appendage into orbit holy crap it felt very special to witness the courtship of such a unique bird so far detached in some ways very similar in many others from other seabirds i have been lucky enough to absorb in particular that luminescent orange gape sent all my appendages into orbit virtual tubenose job i tried my best to document some of this oinking and postulating and here a the lack luster results oh yeah and the chicks look like clowns friendly ones of course they were hilarious and dangerous like that crappy mute swan heart composition that everyone tries for but cripple times better a real hamstring bender of birds my last moment on the cock of a rock were spent craning the neck skywards admiring the gallions of birds circling and aborting landing attempts and retrying it was spectacled in its aculation whatever that means blue skies crisp chatham alberts industrial rock all made for the ultimate clash of the titans which i duly desecrated with my my long hard lens unreal to the extreme get out there help screw your body and build experiences that will live within your bones infinitly party got on the old layering flex n ting blud clart reppin birds up and up and up get ya feet out fleshy a buller s even joined the party not breeding on the pyramid synchronised aching movements threw my eyes and brain into a harmony rarely attained in this oxymoron counter natural landscape a trance which is as intoxicating as it is liberating for this ape of the sea yeah mate stick some verse in ya hearse of a brain with poetic intentions or was it pure adrenalin powered sleep deprivation we departed the holy land with the most precious of cargos bound for main chatham thankfully there was a fairwell squadron of pelagic eye wanderers to bid us adieu it s not all orange conk this and tubenose that there are brown familiar gull like creatures too this southern skua was one of a couple that i was uber chuffed to get some close up views of cracking parasite back on land some opportunistic seabird monitoring porno work allowed some excellent taiko and chatham petrel consumption the old retinas were full those days i can assure you amazing to think these birds can locate their nests in the thick monoculture of heterogenius bush after weeks at sea hats off taiko if i were wearing one cracking in the nest shot by dan burgin a couple of nights were spent at sweetwater witnessing a pantomime of courtship by chatham petrel singing a gliding together truly mesmerising experience tweaking all the right places the mighty morriori river crazy red fungi did not sample some free time was spent exploring various compass points of main chatham with the surprisingly large island sparsely populated allowing human free viewing of cracking endems such as chatham island and pitt island shags post translocation the chicks settled well into their new colony and the daily positive conditioning by the blue beings meant by the time i left they had stopped verbally complaining about having water squid and fish shoved down their throats with some even opening up and attaining bin dimensions luckily they clearly know we re arsehole humans as the defensive bill clapping behaviour remained throughout aint they cute finally almost there been ...