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Woody on the lawn
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Excellent. Look at how effective its plumage is at repelling the water.
Spent the weekend on the West Coast, caught up with this guy at Hokitika Gorge. Kids loved being able to get so close.
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I have reckoned for a number of years that we should farm Weka and Kiwi.
Thanks @Rushy , I remember a few years ago someone was trying to farm Weka ( I think Banks Peninsular) it was either not successful or they could never get permission to kill them , Chathams only place you can do that I think .
I have just always reckoned that if you want a species to survive then farm it commercially. Imagine if the Weka and Kiwi were as common a chooks. Now as for Wood Pigeons, one of those buggers cost me a couple of weeks wages and a confinement to barracks. Who knew that what my grandmother had taught me was nice to eat wasn’t considered fair game on an army survival course. Anyway that is another story from a bygone era.Quote:
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Three pics from an Africa trip. First is a Roller, national bird of Botswana. Other two shots taken in Okovango Delta. The kingfisher was a microscopic, waay smaller than our ones.
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A few shots from a crappy samsung cell phone camera
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Lets see if anyone can pick this bird
This big boy was on the fence this morning.
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Crept up on this today.
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And then came across it's off spring
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Bumped into one (Morepork) in broad daylight earlier in April this year down in Fiordland. On the Lake Marion track. :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by R93
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dusted off the camera today ... dont get much in the way of native birds surrounded by farms on the plains
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I came across this photo today when I was looking through an old album. I believe it is the only photo of Moa bones found in the Tongariro region.
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your photo ??????:)
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Takahe, trail cam photo sent to me by my son, Takahe Ranger, Fiordland.
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Originally Posted by Huk
That is a cracker pic there Lucky.
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Yeah pretty happy got a few good photos today while out chasing wallaby’s round the hills. Always makes the day when I happen to come across one of them.Quote:
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Karearea. (falcon) Near Hyde, Central Otago
It did have two legs - just not enough space on top of the waratah for it to put down two feet.
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Barn Owl. I believe they do exist in NZ but I've never seen one. This photo was taken in Queensland.
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Tui. A long wait for this hyperactive critter to sit still for long enough to trip the shutter.
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A silly thrush failed badly at stealing my raspberries and somehow managed to get itself in quite a pickle stuck between the netting and the fence...
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Today was only the second time I've seen this. I ran off about 25 images with the SX50, but the chick was following "Mum"/"Dad" around continuously, so once I had the exposure optimised manually to combat the sky background, I still had to rely on the auto-focus as I was changing position constantly to keep the birds in view. Many of the images were lost as a result to the auto-focus picking up on intervening branches.
The chick looked wide-eyed (and-bushy-tailed) - it didn't yet have that sly look about the eyes that the adult Shining Cuckoos seem to have. It was the constant begging call for food that first put me onto them, and the poor Grey Warblers were going flat out. Both Warblers were about, though I couldn't keep track of when each was feeding the chick - they were in and out like lightning.
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I popped out of my back door to introduce a noisy Possum to my .22, and when I lit the trees up, this wee beauty was sitting 3 metres away
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got close enough to this guy to get pic on the cell phone... he was waiting for us to scare up some prey in the tussock.
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This kingfisher stopped by and posed for a couple of photos
Terrible quality pic from my phone , but drove under these lines yesterday and saw this bird and thought WTF turned around and went back and sure enough its a Kookaburra , there was another one also in a tree close by I could see .
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Game camera photo from 200m above our house:)
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