Just got home from a good 2hr long walk around the Botanic Garden slinging bird lens. In case you're wondering: No, I still haven't seen the celebrity big bird (falcon) The closest I came was when I ran into a mother daughter (?) pair who were also wandering around (and said that the specific area we were in, someone had apparently spotted it about an hour ago, and that it supposedly was usually only around 3m off the ground) What I did manage to see + photograph: Most of the other birds living in the gardens! Particular highlights: * Finally managed to snap the pair of Quail * Saw the pair of welcome swallows (there was only one last time) together, AND also where their nest is! * Found a big group of little cuties with yellow heads and brown bodies (EDIT: A quick search brings up the "NZ Garden Bird Survey's" page, showing them as "Yellowhammers") * Saw a pair of fantails on a branch together - one a regular brown-white one, and the other a seemingly black-morph * Got some nice footage of a large cluster of ducklings * Got some snaps of silvereyes enjoying the Umbrella Blossom that the gardens had been advertising on their socials a few days ago * May have managed a snap of one of the loudly singing bellbirds, (and a distant tiny-dot snap of what I presume may have been a riroriro)