I have been spending much of the lock down going through my archives and the camera didn’t get picked up very much at all. Yesterday I felt the need to get back to taking photos, so I cleaned our front window and pointed the camera out through it. Yes I could have actually gone outside […]
This year one of the challenges I have set for myself, is that if I go out with the camera, I must come back with some images, even if they are not what I went out looking for. Today the birds were not at home, so to get my images I looked for damselflies. I […]
There is an abundance of bird life at the Petone Estuary at low tide – I have yet to go there and come away without at least one decent image. There is a resident white heron (kotuku) by the boat sheds, a grey heron that comes in from time to time, lots of kingfishers (kotare), […]
This morning we headed back to Whangarei to visit with friends. While there we went to the Quarry Gardens (really pretty gardens in what used to be a quarry) and to the Canopy Walk where we saw some rather large Kauri trees. I spotted another shining cuckoo while we were there but it was a […]