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NZ Dotterel At The Waiongana River Mouth
On Friday morning I headed off to the Waiongana river mouth to check up on the NZ dotterels. These are wonderful little shore birds now only found in a few locations along the Taranaki coastline due to coastal development and human activity. The tide was out and it took me a while to spot were they were foraging amongst the rocks. Once I did spot them I carefully headed out slowly getting as close as I dared not wanting to disturb them. There was a group of 3 and after a few minutes t
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8th Oct 2019
Taranaki At Dawn
I've been wanting to get some photos of Taranaki towering over the mist filled valleys for Otoraoa Rd for a while but the weather hasn't been too favourable until it suddenly cleared this week with a few fine cold clear mornings. Ideal for thick mist to settle in the river valleys and for the mountain to stand out clearly with a full covering of snow.I had to do a morning site visit to McKee production station on Thursday so set off a couple of hours early hoping that I would get the right condi
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20th Sep 2019
Tui In The Cherry
It's my favourite time of year again when the cherries are in flower and we have flocks of tui coming into the garden. This morning we had over 20 tui in the cherry trees having a great old time feeding on the nectar, singing and chasing each other around the garden. There was also a small flock of silvereye in one of the trees. The silvereye are always a bit weary since the tui will regulalary chase them away. They disapear in to the thick growth of some nearby camelias then sneak ba
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23rd Aug 2019
Birds At Zealandia
We were in Wellington last weekend and despite the bad weather I took the opportunity to go for a walk in Zealandia. THe morning started overcast with a forecast for rain but I optimistically though the the rain might hold off. I got got up above the upper dam thinking that the weather didn't look too bad when suddenly it closed in and the heavy rain started. By this time I had managed to photograph several hihi at one of the feeding stations and though I had seen and heard lots of saddleb
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21st Aug 2019
The First Iris Opening
Signs of spring, cherry in blossom and the first iris opening in the garden.Air Fragrant from cherry blossom The first iris opening Fresh spring colours Beauty unfolding Soul flowing out into the oceanThese images are taken using photostacking. I took approx 20 photos at different focal plains to cover teh full depth of field of the flower and then combined them using Zarene Photostacker.
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11th Aug 2019