Big ups to the friendly farmer with the crayfish creek on his property: I now have two native New Zealand freshwater crayfish in the pond. I think I’ll called them Reggie and Ronnie (Ronnie is the big one). Check them out: Like the infamous Kray twins of London’s East End, these two have been sentenced […]

Phase one of Operation Spawn of Ponsonby is now almost complete (and we’re talking about popping out frogs, not sprogs, here, in case that headline was misleading); the ultimate goal of Operation Spawn of Ponsonby being, of course, the establishment of a self-sustaining population of frogs, fish and (hopefully) freshwater crayfish in the gaping industrial […]

Very, very excited by my new favourite animal in the garden – check him out: a juvenile and rather pretty green and golden bell frog who I found hiding under the cucumber vine, keeping out of the hot midday sun like the sensible Aussie immigrant he is. Finding a frog under the vine was a […]

Auckland has been disgustingly hot and humid this week – which equals bad sleep and mosquitos. The damp means they’ve been breeding like crazy, but you HAVE to leave the windows open at night because it’s so roasting – which means the little buggers waft in at all hours and bite you. But lying awake […]