Burgess impressions
A few weeks ago I was supremely fortunate to spend a few nights on Burgess Island in the Mokohinau group to help out with seabird research. We were thwarted by…
A few weeks ago I was supremely fortunate to spend a few nights on Burgess Island in the Mokohinau group to help out with seabird research. We were thwarted by…
Western Springs is very close to where I live in Auckland. It's a big park with a (kinda nasty in places...although not too nasty because there's eels in there) lake…
I spent last weekend on Motuihe looking for penguins. Because my own fieldwork isn't tiring enough, obviously. The great thing about helping out with other people's fieldwork is there's no…
I've been taking a lot of photos with my phone this year. Partly because the quality of images out of an iPhone 5 vastly surpass that of the 4, and…
Our last trip to Tawharanui wasn't too successful in finding any Grey-faced petrels. Which is not surprising, given that it was the middle of the pre-breeding exodus, when all the…
Predator Free 2050 is a big goal for New Zealand. How do we get rid of the worst introduced pests at a national scale? Pest eradication on isolated islands is…
Remember the Wave? One of the risks of visiting wild places is putting your camera gear (and yourself, more importantly) in the way of unexpected events that can sometimes prove…
I think every conference I attend from now on will be a bit of a let-down compared to the BirdsNZ conference this year. After a weekend of great talks, we…
I packed so much into the last week or so that it felt like much longer! A long-planned reunion in Dunedin combined with the BirdsNZ conference in Te Anau made…
I said last week that I don't have any hands free to take photos when I'm doing my fieldwork, which is largely true. It doesn't mean that I'm not going…
Doing fieldwork for my research is when I'm happiest. I'm an outdoors, physical person - I like to be doing things and interacting with the world. Collecting my own data is also…
I realised that I've not really explained what I'm doing for my Master's particularly well here. I spent so much of last year planning it out that it's just become…
I've been looking through old photos recently, from when I was first starting to explore the world of nature photography. The bird photos are interesting, because they're all very similar.…
Every time I get out into the Hauraki Gulf, I'm amazed. It seems a little bizarre that so close to New Zealand's biggest city, there can exist this absolute haven…
The Pyramid (Tarakoikoia) is a mighty rise of rock at the southern end of the Chatham Islands. It's classified as an Important Bird Area because it's the only place in…