Last night we visited Sirocco Kakapo. He is currently visiting at Zealandia Ecosanctuary in Wellington. From a photographic perspective it was a real challenge but I am always one to learn from others and had the benefit of a fellow photographer sharing her experiences before we went. So armed with a 50mm lens that I […]
One of New Zealand’s endemic birds, the Kakariki is a stunning bright green colour. Kakariki means green in Māori language. Kakariki are rare on the two main islands of New Zealand now, but can be found on pest free islands. Thanks to a relocation programme in 2010, they can now also be found in Zealandia and some
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It was a gorgeous sunny day so we decided to head to Zealandia. It was the first time I have been there without the aid of a crutch or scooter to get around and I was keen to see just how much I could manage. I surprised myself! I walked the Te Mahanga track
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After meeting the seal yesterday and having changed to my wildlife lens, we decided on a quick trip to Zealandia on the way home. Ok so it wasn’t quite so quick but I did get to see the shag chicks getting fed, some nest building by others in the colony and the scaup in his
In the news today there was a story about a tuatara that had escaped Zealandia and was found a little worse for wear. It reminded me that I had a bunch of tuatara images from last weekend still to share. Zealandia has a large population of tuatara now and a few years ago you were
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Having heard that the kingfishers were still in their nest, I ventured back up the hill in what can only be described as crap weather. It was windy and cold, and the cloud was so low that when we made it to the nest we had the clouds swirling around us in the wind. I
Having spent two days in a row over the weekend staking out the kingfisher nest I am surprised at how few images I actually shot of them. The kingfisher wasn’t there all that much and most of the time was spent just sitting and watching. The same can’t be said for the trip up the
The menu changed a little today with less skinks and more variety. The chicks were fed a skink just as I arrived at the nest site but after that it was cicadas and a stick insect that I saw flown in. The stick insect provided some issues for the kingfisher and it took two tries
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While photographing the rosellas at Zealandia last weekend, I mentioned to a fellow photographer that thing I would like to see next was a kingfisher nest. I was really happy when she told me where to find one and then somewhat frustrated that I had to wait a whole week before I could go see it. Having
Yesterday I wrote about the Eastern Rosellas and today is no different. Today’s images though have totally different light to yesterdays. There was an hour and a half between the two sets of images and in that time the sun had moved and everything changed. The background lightened up, bokeh was more evident and the
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