I took a regular visitor out on Powerline Road today. The weather was quite good until it began to drizzle about 1PM. It was rather quiet, like it had been on Sunday. Japanese white-eye numbers are still way down. 'Apapane were either present in lower numbers, or more quiet. Still a lot of juvenile i'iwi and 'apapane around.
We went to the kipuka where I found the rare cyanea shipmanii recently. I took a new path through the kipuka to look (not thoroughly) for more cyanea where I had not searched before. Still no luck. The kipuka still has resident 'akepa and Hawai'i creeper - there were at least two of each at some point. We thought we heard one set of taps from an unseen 'akiapola'au in the usual koa overhanging the road, but could not sight or hear it. Perhaps just an 'amakihi...
We also climbed a rise in the 1984 lava flow, to look across the 1984 lava field at the kipukas on the far side that I would dearly like to get to some day.
We finished the day by visiting the Saddle silversword farm.
We went to the kipuka where I found the rare cyanea shipmanii recently. I took a new path through the kipuka to look (not thoroughly) for more cyanea where I had not searched before. Still no luck. The kipuka still has resident 'akepa and Hawai'i creeper - there were at least two of each at some point. We thought we heard one set of taps from an unseen 'akiapola'au in the usual koa overhanging the road, but could not sight or hear it. Perhaps just an 'amakihi...
We also climbed a rise in the 1984 lava flow, to look across the 1984 lava field at the kipukas on the far side that I would dearly like to get to some day.
We finished the day by visiting the Saddle silversword farm.
