While walking in the Ohauiti Reserve this afternoon, I was watching small birds (I think they were waxeyes) flitting around in the tops of the flowering cherry trees. I didn't have a long lens with me and the sky was very overcast, backlighting the birds, so I didn't try to photograph them. Then I noticed this kereru (NZ Wood Pigeon) quietly sitting on a branch much closer to me, busily eating the tender leaves. I was able to move around to get a better angle and took several shots without scaring it off.
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back...
