4/3/08 - Powerline Road (1 Viewer)

Back out on Powerline road for the first time in nearly 3 months! The weather was cooperative. We saw/heard 2 'akepa and 2 Hawai'i creeper in about 4-5 hours in the usual kipuka 3 miles out. We tried to locate 'akiapola'au in kipukas along the way back and in the first 2 miles of Pu'u O'o Trail, with some wandering through the kipuka 'ainahou forests, but no luck. Japanese white-eye were very scarce. (yay!) There has been a light-phase 'io gliding low over the tree tops on each of my last 2 visits to kipuka 'ainahou. I checked one of my dwarf melicopes in the furthest kipuka on Powerline Road, and it was flowering - nice photos for the gallery. I also took some photos of the native raspberries along Powerline Road that look like they may be the relatively rare species - still unsure.