Any jazz fans in Ōamaru? This is happening tonight and you really don't want to miss it! It's a really stellar lineup of contemporary jazz musicians. This link has a video of them performing: www.facebook.com/jakebaxendal... Buy tickets:

Nearly 1000 chicks fledged at Oamaru's blue penguin colony

Right now on the Oamaru Penguin Colony live cam: there is a fat seal curled up mid frame 😍 🦭 www.youtube.com/live/sfUNDHG...

Watching Secret Garden with Toni has inspired me to make this feed 🇳🇿🐱 (reposted with a new feed path - cattenborough!)

Watching Secret Garden with Toni has inspired me to make this feed 🇳🇿🐱 (reposted with a new feed path - cattenborough!)

Adventures in #garmentsewing continue. I am making #simplicitysewings8753 i.e. my ride or die shirt for Eddie. This is a Liberty poplin and as such I have put Effort into pattern matching, I think with some success (the placket level is an easy spot, but the pocket..). Using my trusty Pfaff IDT.

@kelsy.co.nz is ready for the sewing bee. Step 1: Make the pants. 🇳🇿🧶

@kelsy.co.nz happy birthday!

GBB in the Ōamaru Mail! We are always thrilled to share our local stories with local media, connecting to communities about our mahi in their neighbourhood 💛

📢 The measure has divided people on Stewart Island, but led to a 52 percent population boost for threatened Southern New Zealand dotterel/Pukinui.

Is there a feed for crap mushroom photography? 🇳🇿🌱

Today we're cutting out a new shirt for me from this amazing fabric, I can't wait to wear this at the writers festival! 🇳🇿🧶

It's @kelsy.co.nz's birthday today! We're having a nice breakfast of french toast, greek yoghurt, fried banana and peach jam. #kai

Got a cheap thermal camera for my phone and have great fun this morning discovering all our heat loss areas.

With little more than 100 left in the wild, the pukunui/Southern New Zealand dotterel is facing the very real threat of extinction.

Ōamaru Penguins, which manages both the town’s popular visitor colony in Ōamaru and a separate non‑visitor control site, says the result is a significant conservation milestone and a testament to decades of sustained effort.

#nzbirds Jimmy the sulphur-crested cockatoo is being rehomed. We walk past him every day and will be sad to see him go! Hopefully someone can give him a good home.

Making apple and sanguine pear crumble for dessert 😋 #nzkai

Picked up a bucket of sanguine peaches from a lady in town, time to freeze them all so we can make crumble all winter 😋. Going to throw all the seeds down the back of the garden and hopefully start our own tree. #kai #nzgardening

The stacking and drying begins. #kai #nzgardening

We're only half way through picking up the walnuts that have dropped SO FAR. #kai #nzgardening

Welp. Tis the season I guess. #nzkai

Hey there #nzbirds team - anybody know where we could find a schematic for a kākā nesting box like they use in Prince O.W. park in Wellington?

Spending the morning locked in a public toilet. How's your morning going? 😂

Toni let me pick her up on the tray! My arms got tired before she got sick of the ride 😅. #aotearoapets 🐱🇳🇿

Greek feast for dinner tonight! Flatbread, hummus, garlic paste, tabouli and chicken 😋. #kai

8 cups of quince jelly! 😋 #kai

We collected some quinces from the tree in the public gardens this morning and I'm turning them in to quince jelly and paste today. The jelly is starting to turn red, and the foam is getting pink. Once that's done I'll take out the remaining fruit to turn into paste. #kai

"I was sure there was a step here!" #aotearoabirds 🪶🇳🇿

📢 Feral cats eliminated the shore plover population on Pitt Island, as well as the mainland of New Zealand, in the 1870s.

These photos were taken seconds before he stole a chip and flew away triumphantly 😂 #kai

Does anyone else aggressively press the Enter key when they are committing code? 😅

The #aotearoabirds feed has been going great lately, full of #kākāpō and #pūtangitangi content! I feel like some other birds need representation though, more #kakaruai please! 😄

This fantail was flying all around us in the Ōamaru Public Gardens for at least 20 minutes. Got some incredible shots of it in motion, and stopping its little angry feet! #aotearoabirds 🪶🇳🇿

Meal prepping a kilo of karaage chicken tonight 😋 #kai

First time we've seen an Otago shag here in the gardens. It let me get right up close for a photoshoot. #aotearoabirds 🇳🇿🪶

This fantail was flying all around us in the Ōamaru Public Gardens for at least 20 minutes. Got some incredible shots of it in motion, and stopping its little angry feet! #aotearoabirds 🪶🇳🇿

Who needs a house when you could own your own fully-functional miniature railway? #MadProps www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/r...

Made a new feed for our little town 😁

Firewood for winter delivered today! Getting very advanced using pallet walls to protect the dahlias and putting a temporary roof on until we can get it shifted into the proper shed.

First time making Tonkotsu ramen, for Valentine's dinner. I'm super pleased with how it turned out! #kai 🥝🇳🇿

Cooking tonkatsu broth today in preparation for Valentine's. Toni got one whiff of the bonito flakes and she's obsessed! #kai #aotearoapets 🥝🇳🇿🐱

Another geographical extreme and amazing bird spot in NZ is Stewart Island - great volumes of endemic birds, esp on Ulva island, sea lions, kiwis, seabirds. An idyllic paradise reminiscent of colder but more familiar haunts back home...

She's active right now! #aotearoabirds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

I'm just sorting through my photos from the park and these ones, taken at 8.30am on New Year's Day... 😌🦆🌱🇳🇿 #nzbirds

A very cool live Web-Cam of a Kakapo nest. Only one egg right now but likely to be a couple more soon. Check it out. #Birds #Nature #wildlife #endangered #kakapo www.youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2...

Moglet's current favourite spot is hanging out on our CCTV controller box. I guess it's warm? 🐱🇳🇿 #aotearoapets

Tonight we had katsu curry for dinner 😋 #kai

Covering up a small hole in my new shirt with a little patch. It's pattern matched so you can't see it from far away 😁 #garmentsewing