Where I went
I never realized that birds had tongues - but here is a tui sticking out her tongue - part of the bathing process it seems
Shaking off water and sticking out the tongue
Just chillin' a bit
Shaking her tail
Water flying everywhere. The exposure was to long and so the water drops appear as dashes -
Chillin' a bit more
More tail shaking and water drops
Shaking again
Now just waiting. I like the little white feather on her throat
Nice silhouette
Preparing for takeoff
Nice view of the white throat feathers
Standing at attention
Whitehead
Bell bird
Stitchbird
Stitchbird
Stitchbird - she sings amazing songs
Stitchbird
Stitchbird
Fantail
Fantail with wings extended
Tui taking a bath. - What I did was watch the birds bathing for some time, then continued to walk to a feeding station to see the bellbirds and stitchbirds - then returned to the bath
Shaking and water drops
Sort of standing at attention shaking
A better view of well formed water drops
Silhouette of a Hui
Standing on a tree stub
Time out from bird watching - a view of the Auckland space needle on the left and Linda's place at the Sentinel (tallest building on the right)
A red crown parakeet
Different view
Same parakeet - different view trying to catch the beak
A something. I thought a takahe, but that was wrong
Sunset with highlighted edges
Later
Closer
End of sunset
C. Frank Starmer