#my best piwakawaka photo so far

[azashenya]

This is my best photo (so far) of a piwakawaka (NZ fantail). I'm immensely fond of them, they are an inquisitive bird that will come to see if any passing humans might be kicking up something interesting to eat, so there is always a good chance to see them when walking somewhere you know they are (like one of our native bush reserves) but they flit around so rapidly that I gave up on catching them with my cell phone camera.

This was my first walk in Riccarton Bush (a managed predator free native bush section in Christchurch) with my DSLR camera. There were a few piwakawaka taunting me from in the trees but only one came close enough to the path for me to try and photograph them, and they still hid in the trees.

It's going to take much more practice before I manage to get what feels like a good photo of one and I'm tempted to make this a running gag...

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