tūī
I was naturally anxious to photograph some of New Zealand’s iconic endemic birds, but since we’ve been hiking more or less all day every day it has basically boiled down to stumbling into them while I happen to have my camera out.
As it happens (and though no one seems to believe us) we did see the most iconic of all—a kiwi—on our first day walking. You can believe me or believe me not, because my camera was in my pack, but we saw it near the waste treatment plant on the outskirts of Invercargill (we’ve since heard but never seen them in the mountains). This tui—which is not at all uncommon—was from the same day, near Bluff.
tūī
I was naturally anxious to photograph some of New Zealand’s iconic endemic birds, but since we’ve been hiking more or less all day every day it has basically boiled down to stumbling into them while I happen to have my camera out.
As it happens (and though no one seems to believe us) we did see the most iconic of all—a kiwi—on our first day walking. You can believe me or believe me not, because my camera was in my pack, but we saw it near the waste treatment plant on the outskirts of Invercargill (we’ve since heard but never seen them in the mountains). This tui—which is not at all uncommon—was from the same day, near Bluff.