With the walking track to the gannets closed the only way to get to the Cape Kidnappers gannet colony is via Gannet Safaris – Overland. They have air-conditioned four wheel drive buses that take you through the Cape Kidnappers Station out to the colony. I have done this trip many times now and each time […]
Yesterday evening we headed to the Hawkes Bay Sports Park to watch my cousin, Katherine Camp, run in the Elite Women’s 800m event. Katherine is working hard to get to the Tokyo Olympics and her mother asked me to take some photos of the race for her social media posts. I had not used my […]
Today I headed off to the wetlands to photograph some of the cutest chicks I know of. The dabchick is from the grebe family and as they are pretty much a full time water bird, once their chicks hatch they ride on the backs of their parents. These two chicks were probably the smallest dabchick […]
On my last trip to Coromandel, in between visits to the tern and gulls, we went for a drive over to Kuaotunu to see if there were still some dotterels there. We stopped at one spot where we have been previously and found one pair with a couple of older chicks. The weather had turned […]
I went back to see the spotless crake again this morning. I wanted one more go at them before turning my attention to something else. I have to admit I was disappointed when I got there to find that most of the foliage along the edge of the pond that I was stealthily hiding behind […]
The year has barely started and already I am clocking up a bunch of ‘firsts’. One of this week’s highlights is a secretive little bird that I have never seen before other than in photographs. The spotless crake is much smaller than I expected , and indeed much smaller than it looks in these images. […]
Just after boxing day, my cousin shared an image of a tern chick that had me champing at the bit to go to Coromandel. She hasn’t been into photography for long but she is certainly picking up new skills fast! We had already planned to drive up to Rotorua for a couple of days to […]
This morning we headed to Zealandia early to ensure a good parking space. We got that, but in reality it was probably too early for me to achieve the images I wanted. The light just wasn’t there and by the time it was I had commitments elsewhere so had to leave. However in the time […]
Christmas eve and all my chores and shopping complete, I decided to go and have some chill out time with the falcons. All the other photogs were busy and I was there alone. I kept my eye on the nest area and didn’t see any movement. The two parent birds were high up on the […]
Christmas is nearly here and everyone is super busy. Crazy how that happens for such a short space of time when you would think we would all be relaxing. Amid the chaos I headed back up to the falcons for a little bit of quiet camera time. When I arrived at the park, I had […]