The robins were the highlight of our visit to Zealandia yesterday. We were lucky to be in the right place at the right time when staff were doing a welfare check on a female robin.
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Birds, Kaka, Nature Photography, North Is Robin, Zealandia
While the sun was shining when I left home, arriving at Zealandia it was not. Dull drab light is never fun for bird photography, especially in the bush.
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Hihi, Kaka, Kereru, NZ Scaup, Zealandia
The birds were very active yesterday at Zealandia with many busy feeding fledglings. This made for a great day of nature photography.
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Birds, Cicadas, Kaka, Kakariki, Nature Photography, North Is Robin, Rifleman, Whitehead, Zealandia
On my last visit to the sanctuary I was seeking the titipounamu to photograph, and while I did find them, I didn’t achieve any useful images. Today I had the same focus.
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Kaka, Rifleman, Tui, Zealandia
I went for a walk around Zealandia with a couple of photography friends.
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Bellbird, Californian Quail, Saddleback, Zealandia
On our return we found a noisy kākā youngster demanding to be fed. Its squarking didn’t do any good, other than to scare off any of the other kākā around it.
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Kaka, Zealandia
A few years ago I heard about a special kākā at Zealandia. Named Pinky-B by her monitors, she had different colouring to the rest of the kākā in the valley with the exception of her daughter who also sported the pretty pinky red feathers.
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Kaka, Zealandia
Kaka are the clowns of the forest and today I saw why. They don’t care if they are upright or upside down, as they move through the tree tops.
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Kaka, Zealandia
This morning we headed into Karori, Wellington, to visit Zealandia Ecosanctuary. There have been many reports of a rifleman family that is fairly easy to find, so with that as our focus we started walking into the valley.
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Californian Quail, Kaka, Rifleman, Zealandia
Usually we head to Zealandia on a Friday because there are less people about. Not today – there were groups of people everywhere! It’s great to see so many out enjoying the sunny weather in the valley. We went today with the goal of achieving some fantastic images and I believe I achieved my goal,
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Bellbird, Kaka, Saddleback, Whitehead, Zealandia