Monthly Archive: October 2018

Fieldwork week 1 day 5

Location: Hina Hina Cove, Catlins Date: 10/19/2018 What a place! Besides the very long and a bit challenging walk through private paddocks and over a bumpy, not greatly maintained dirt road, it was a...

Fieldwork week 1 day 3

Location: Owaka Head and Jack’s Bay, Catlins Date: 10/17/2018 Cereal and tea for breakfast. We left the accommodations at 8:45 and traveled by two yutes (trucks) near to the site from the day before,...

The Duck Conundrum

I was spending time with my ducks in the Dunedin Botanical Garden the other afternoon (along with some hungry pigeons, red-billed gulls, and chaffinches), and I finally decided to answer the question that has...