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Abby Letteri
@abbyletteri.bsky.social
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Horses, dogs, wild places, history, ecology, ethology, horses. Did I mention horses? Dogs? I am a writer of creative nonfiction.
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Love this new addition to Wellington’s Waterfront.
Kimi/You Are Here by Seung Yul Oh
(photo courtesy of Wellington Sculpture Trust)

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December 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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An incredible trip into the Kaimanawa ranges … thanks to members of NZDF who hosted us … the horses are looking so well this spring, so many gorgeous foals. These are descendants of artillery horses turned out after WWI who started these herds. Now they are our taonga. Our responsibility.
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Who needs fireworks when there’s a huge moon rising through the trees. Horses, dogs and this human are unimpressed.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Golden desert dwellers in the Dzungarian Gobi Desert.
September 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Sidetracked by camels.
Mother and baby Bactrian camels in the Mongolian desert steppe.
September 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Flying horse!
September 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Joy!
August 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Counting down the days, now, until I fly out to Ulaanbataar, on my way to the Gobi B Strictly Protected Area — three more weeks in Mongolia, with opportunities to see and study the takhi (Equus ferus przewalskii) living fully wild lives in their ancestral homeland!
Paleolithic cave art of wild horse. Vast landscape of the Gobi Desert with a band of golden takhi in the middle distance.
August 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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We all need the light at sunset and the beauty of trees, right?
July 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Nothing's up. Just the sun going down behind the trees, bathing the winter paddocks with crazy green-gold light.
Late evening sun through a grove of old growth totara trees. Magic.
July 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Spot my friend, kōtare. This little fella has graced my days at the farm for a couple of years, elusive and solitary — until this year, when he's been joined by a female (a mate?). Kōtare!!
Small bird sitting on a branch in a thick Totara canopy. Bright turquoise blue feathers on his back, a creamy chest (almost peachy), white collar, long bill, squat posture.
July 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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I know. It’s not much. But it’s not nothing.
July 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Every city and town needs one of these …
June 3, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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and to all a good night.
May 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Can't get enough of watching young Whiskers explore her world. Today, checking out the oldest Totara tree on our farm, she licked and brushed her whiskers (vibrassae) at the tree's exposed root for several minutes, deeply engaged in her exploration. I love watching horses.
Young black filly mare with a thin white blaze, grazing under a totara tree, stops to investigate the exposed root. Green vegetation, sunlight, peace.
May 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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I love watching horses. When Whiskers and Freddie were reunited after months apart, they picked up where they left off ... Whiskers loved the little bridge to nowhere in the paddock where she was born. Returning to it 2 years later, she walks over, pausing to relish whatever feeling it provides.
Two horses in a field, one chestnut, one black with white socks. The black horse has walked up onto a small bridge, a place where she liked to explore when she was a little foal. This is her first time back in this particular paddock, and she went straight to the bridge to walk over it and stand for a moment, in contemplation.
May 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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And this ...
PhD in Creative Writing
City to Sea Bridge, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Portrait of a very happy woman wearing academic attire with black robe and red shawl, carrying a large bouquet of flowers whilst wearing a very funky Knox bonnet. Standing at the top of the stairs with a fabulous toothed fish sculpture formaing in an arc above the stairs. Other graduates and their families and friends walking by below, under a mottled blue-grey sky.
May 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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A bit hard to leave Sant Pere de Ribes. Such lovely cats and flowers and people live there.
View from a mountain trail, looking out over Sant Pere de Ribes and the Mediterranean Sea. Small and inscrutable black cat on a brick road. Wildflowers, hand-picked from a dry river bed.
April 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Horses of Spain.
April 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Cats of Spain.
April 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Medieval street, Albarracin, Spain.
Filtered sun lights a narrow, twisting lane way of cobblestone; pink and peach coloured plaster and stone walls, arched passageways.
April 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I’m with bsky.app/profile/altn... …
someone out there needs a field of poppies tonight.
A large field of bright red poppies in a large field.
April 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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More Sorraia horses!
Alentejo, Portugal.
Two young horses in the sun. A band of Sorraia mares in a green landscape with oak trees. A beautiful Sorraia stallion looking to his left in a green field.
April 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Found myself in an ancient village in the clouds today, complete with castle, cobbled lanes and lovely doorways. Oh, and a cat, of course.
9th century castle ruins in heavy mist. Small wooden doorway, painted pale green with pastel flowers. Cobbled lane and arched gate. Grey tabby cat on cobblestones.
April 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Being checked out by bottlenose dolphins in the Azores.
Grey sky, blue waters. Brilliant!
Two bottlenose dolphins swimming aside our small boat. One rolls on his/her side to check us out. Two bottlenose dolphins, swimming abreast, breach the water trailing air bubbles from their blowholes.
April 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM