New photos of sea birds have been added to my library, including New Zealand storm-petrels, Cook’s petrels, and Buller’s and flesh-footed shearwaters.
Tag: birds
A couple of days ago I saw my first sanderling (Calidris alba) and I’ve now added a new album of sanderling photos to my gallery.
Curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) at a high tide roost on the Manukau Harbour. More than a dozen new photos of shorebirds have been added to my gallery. I managed to get close to a mixed flock of birds at a high tide roost and got some nice portraits of sharp-tailed sandpiper, red-necked stint, and curlew […]
Juvenile North Island rifleman (Acanthisitta cloris granti) searching for insects on a mossy tree trunk. I’ve added some rifleman photos to my gallery. Riflemen are one of two extant species of New Zealand wrens—an ancient group of tiny passerines.
I visited the Manganui o te Ao river for a morning last June. This is a river which is well known its healthy population of whio/blue ducks (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos), but a place I had never actually been before. This ended up being a very productive morning, with some beautiful images added to my collection.