Bright eyed and ready for action

And against a blue sky!  A New Zealand kingfisher. think it may be a young one as the chest isn't pale apricot, but it might just be not breeding plumage. Still cloudy early but cleared to a lovely day.

Well lovely that is until 1:13pm when we got a big earthquake jolt. I was sitting down, luckily, but it's the first time I've felt scared after the thousands we've had, because now I know the consequences - one big jolt equalled 5 years of stress last time, and I don't think I could go through that again.And of course for some people it's still ongoing.  We've had over 40 aftershocks, some we've felt some too small to feel. Now everyone is on tenterhooks waiting to see if this is the precursor to a worse one as it was in 2011.

The extra is two black fronted terns, one with a large baby eel, the other one chasing it to get it off the first one! funnily enough the one with the eel is the young one, and it's the adult that's doing the chasing.