I spent quite a bit of time today sitting at the beach waiting for the tide to go out and the kingfishers to arrive. There is usually a pattern to the birds as the water leaves, first the geese turn up, then the gulls and terns, then the swans, shags and plovers etc. and all […]
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Yesterday the sun was shining despite the weather forecast, so we went for a drive to Waikanae. In retrospect it was probably not the brightest thing to do just before a major holiday, the traffic was backed up for a bit of the trip, but we got there in the end. We took a picnic
A few days ago, a friend showed me a series of images he took of a shag with an eel. The eel was wrapping itself around the shag’s head and the image was just amazing. I was so envious of the opportunity he had to photograph that event. Little did I know that just a
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For the last five weeks we have been going to see the pied shag nests to follow the growth of the chicks. It is hard not to form some little attachment to the chicks in this time as we watch them grow bigger and bigger each week. They turned from ugly alien looking things to
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Today saw us back at Zealandia for the fourth week in a row. The shag chicks have grown an enormous amount in the past week and are now being left on their own in the nests. I didn’t get a feeding image this week, the parent birds just weren’t cooperating with my schedule! I
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