More Sticky Things

This one was a lot harder to spot, looks more like a stick and not like a neon glow stick. I spotted this fella (shiela?) as I was putting the tools away after a hard days gardening. I planted two things! Which was hard work because a) it was on a steepish bank, and b) it was into clay, so I had to dig a giant hole and fill it with compost so the plants wont die. Anyway Im going to buy some native trees in the weekend to put down the back of the garden, I'm looking for plants that will attach the birds. So perhaps a kowhai for tuis and something from here for the wood pigeons.

Up close they could almost be cute.

Big Stick

What a wee beasty. This lovely bright green thing must be colour blind if it thought it could hide from my eagle eyes. Our new house is surrounded by a lot more trees so I am constantly being delighted by all the new insects, I haven't seen a massive stick insect like this since I lived up north. Weta's are also living at the bottom of my garden. Plus our garden is under the flight path of native wood pigeons (kereru), always amazed those plump birds can even fly, plus the added bonus of the swooping sounds their wings make. Its nature in the suburbs.
And now for a poll, head or bum end?