Every now and then we have a bird hit the window due to the trees being so close to the house. It usually stuns them briefly and then they fly off as if nothing has happened. This morning I heard the thud and turned to look. Just outside the door was a tiny silvereye, totally […]
Sometime ago now (well over a year), I started a ’30 second exposure’ project. I have to admit to being a little slack in working on this project but yesterday I left the big lens at home and focused entirely on slow exposure photography. These images were taken on a short drive around the South
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Our back garden looks like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Birds” at the moment. There is easily up to a hundred silvereyes flitting around the trees feasting on the hanging bananas and drinking from the tui feeder. When the tui arrives they scatter and wait quietly. There is a definite hierarchy in the bird
Today another bird photographer and I were invited to photograph some tui in the backyard of a fellow bird enthusiast we met online. She told us she had some very active birds at her feeders and though we might enjoy photographing them. She wasn’t wrong! We had loads of fun in the short time we were there and
Last August just before we headed off for a trip to Brisbane was the last time we saw the tui at our feeders. He has been gone over the Summer months as there has been an abundance of natural food about. He wasn’t the only one to leave us either, the waxeyes also disappeared from
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The flax is in bloom right now and the tui are making a meal of it. They look a sight with their yellow makeup on – the pollen from the flax flowers covers their heads in bright yellow. I went back down to the inlet to check on the nest of pied stilt eggs –
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Some birds are extremely protective of their nests and will do whatever it takes to distract you from it if you get too close. I had this happen last night when I went out just before sunset with my camera. Usually the pied stilts will disappear when I show myself and they will avoid the
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A few images from this afternoon during a walk around the Pauatahanui Reserve.
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