A spur-winged plover family at a local, and very public pond presented a great opportunity to photograph this often wary and aggressive species without adding stress at this sensitive time.
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More Burgess Island (Mokohinau Islands) lizards. This time it’s our only native egg-laying lizard, the Suter’s skink.
New photos of Shore skinks, another species of native lizard from Burgess Island (Mokohinau Islands).
On an evening visit to Miranda I was rewarded by a flock of royal spoonbills that landed near where I was watching shorebirds. I was able to make many photos of the spoonbills feeding on crabs and gleaning invertebrates from mangrove leaves in warm evening light.
Tui are a relatively common and often photographed native bird. So why did I pick this intimate portrait as a feature photo?