White fantail
This little bird, this unusual leucistic fantail, spurred a lot of interest last year. I spent a lot of time watching it and chatting to people visiting the cemetery where…
This little bird, this unusual leucistic fantail, spurred a lot of interest last year. I spent a lot of time watching it and chatting to people visiting the cemetery where…
Every day for a week, I hopped on the Rakiura Charters boat at Golden Bay, disembarked on Ulva island, and spent the day in solitude. Well, nearly solitude. Human solitude…
Light goes quickly in the mountains, particularly in winter. Days start cold and blue, even with clear skies. They end cold and blue, golden rays barely eking over the stark…
The evening we stopped at the Hardwicke settlement on Auckland Island was golden. We'd had a pretty rough ride for the start of the subantarctic voyage, and our plans to…
Way back in 2015, I developed a habit of posting a single image with a caption as an additional blog every Wednesday. This was to keep my creative mojo up…
I realised that the title could be a little misleading, or at least interpreted in different ways. I meant it in the sense that the white-faced storm petrels were like…
I've visited the Chatham islands three times in the past four years. The best was a month spent at Taiko camp, lending a hand feeding 100 tītī (sooty shearwater) chicks…
Every now and then I get the urge to delve back into my photo archives. It's a rewarding exercise because it does a few things: I appreciate my past wins…
One of the things I wanted to do down on Rakiura was go for a good hike out into the wilderness. The middle of nowhere. I relish the feeling of…
This is one of my favourite images from the #birdventurenz. It's one of my favourite images so far. It's not flashy, there's no exciting action going on. It's a moment…
The days are getting longer. The weather is a mercurial mix of thunderstorms and sunshine, and trees like kōwhai and karo are heaving out flowers. The tūī are loving it.…