Baby Grebes
What's cuter than a baby grebe? FOUR BABY GREBES! This is high up on the list of favourite wildlife encounters of the year. Sitting on the shore of Lake Wanaka…
What's cuter than a baby grebe? FOUR BABY GREBES! This is high up on the list of favourite wildlife encounters of the year. Sitting on the shore of Lake Wanaka…
Giant's Castle is known for its vultures, and I will write a few posts about them soon. Today I wanted to focus on the other birdlife we encountered while staying…
I'm done! University is over for the year, and I am now free to take and process photos to my heart's content. Like this sweet little Fantail. Found along the…
New Zealand is home to some amazing birds. We have endemic species that live nowhere else in the world. We also play host to some migrant species that travel a…
The voting for New Zealand's Bird of the Year has changed my blogging plans slightly. The next few will be about New Zealand birds! We're going to start with my…
I was extremely lucky to spend a few nights on Tiritiri Matangi Island Sanctuary recently. I'll write a full blog about that soon, but today I wanted to share something…
This day was probably my favourite, and it just kept getting better! After starting the day with cute seals, Detaille Island, exploring Base W and whale-watching (and all that before lunch!),…
One of our main goals while we were staying in Tekapo was to find and photograph Black Stilts - Kaki. They were once one of the most endangered bird species…
The next in a series of "It's not just penguins" blogs! (Remember the Skuas? They'll get another blog post no doubt, they're so gorgeous). Antarctic Shags go by a number…
Fantails are one of our ubiquitous native birds that are known for following people around. Friendly fantails don't really like us personally, but they do enjoy feeding on the insects…
After a stunning cruise through towering icebergs, we landed on Booth Island. A wide sweep of pristine snow curved up to the Gentoo colony on the hill. By this stage…
Colonies of birds are a lot of fun to photograph - but it's sometimes difficult to know where to look! We passed this roost of White-fronted terns briefly while boating…
I wrote a bit about composition a while back. In that post I lamented accidentally amputating parts of birds by not zooming out enough. In trying to diverge from just taking…
Skuas get a bad rap. People just don't like things that eat cute fluffy penguin chicks. But they do have fluffy chicks of their own to feed, and there's not…
We don't see Australasian Crested Grebes in the North Island. They're impressive waterbirds that look ridiculous on land because their legs are set very far back on their bodies! It…