![Tui close up with pollen on beak and head.](https://www.digitalpix.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Tui-at-Zealandia.jpg)
Flax plants are flowering everywhere at the moment and with it we have tui with yellow pollen on their faces from drinking the nectar. It is a great opportunity to photograph tui as the flowers stalks are tall, and the tui will walk along them until they have tasted every flower. In some of these images I was less that a metre away from the bird. They are so focused on what they are doing that they didn’t bother with me or my camera. This is just a short post to share these images, so please enjoy.
![Tui on flax flowers](https://www.digitalpix.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/P1290340-Enhanced-NR-Edit-1.jpg)
![Tui on flax flowers](https://www.digitalpix.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/P1256522-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg)
![Tui sucking nectar from flax flowers](https://www.digitalpix.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/P1256590-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg)
![Tui on flax flower stalk](https://www.digitalpix.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/P1289786-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg)
![Tui on flax flowers](https://www.digitalpix.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/P1256544-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg)
![Tui on flax looking out to survey area.](https://www.digitalpix.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/P1256534-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg)