Alistair1 wrote:
Fluttering Shearwater on the Waitemata.
After receiving some excellent advice on these pages regarding kayak based photography, I finally summoned the resolve to entrust expensive camera equipment to my paddling skills or lack thereof. Wished I had done it years ago!
These little guys are plentiful around the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, NZ where I live.
Wow!
Seems it does not feel threatened by you being around it in your kayak, as it is flying in your direction for something it sees. No? What did it spot in the water? I love these sequences that describe behavior, that a tell a story.
Just found this link (as a cited reference inside Wiki's description of the Fluttering Shearwater.... I like Wikipedia!).
This site (in the link below) is specific to the birds of New Zealand. It describes the feeding tactics used by the Fluttering Shearwater that you photographed! Fascinating!
