{"id":11771,"date":"2020-01-26T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/?p=11771"},"modified":"2021-01-17T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T03:21:55","slug":"light-mantled-albatross-in-perseverance-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/11771","title":{"rendered":"Light-mantled Albatross in Perseverance Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatross-D85_6412-web.jpg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatross-D85_6412-web.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatross-D85_6412-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatross-D85_6412-web.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Light-mantled Albatross in flight Perseverance Harbour, Campbell Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week I wrote about the anticipation and excitement of encountering <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Campbell Albatross (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/2020\/01\/campbell-albatross\/\" target=\"_blank\">Campbell Albatross<\/a> while <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"heading south (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/2020\/01\/heading-south\/\" target=\"_blank\">heading south<\/a> toward Campbell Island. The next anticipated sighting was Light-mantled Albatross. These stunning birds are a delight to watch flying, especially when performing their synchronised courtship flights. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"I wrote about this after first seeing it on Enderby Island during our 2016 expedition (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/2016\/04\/enderby-island-hike-south-shore\/\" target=\"_blank\">I wrote about this after first seeing it on Enderby Island during our 2016 expedition<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage-expeditions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Heritage (opens in a new tab)\">Heritage<\/a>.  One of my images from that trip is the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"feature image for Light-mantled Albatross on New Zealand Birds Online (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/nzbirdsonline.org.nz\/?q=node\/144\" target=\"_blank\">feature image for Light-mantled Albatross on New Zealand Birds Online<\/a> and I was looking forward to seeing them again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatrossPair-D85_5560ed-web.jpg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatrossPair-D85_5560ed-web.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatrossPair-D85_5560ed-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatrossPair-D85_5560ed-web.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Light-mantled Albatross pair in courtship flight<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On this trip I had plenty of opportunities to watch and photograph Light-mantled Albatross and was able to add some nice images to my archive. I am still in the process of working through all the raw images editing out and deleting the rubbish. I try and discipline myself to get the boring stuff out of the way before processing images but some images just have to be processed as a reward for wading through files. There will be more to come as I make my way through all the files as we had great sightings on Campbell Island and Auckland\/Enderby Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatross-D85_5644-web.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatross-D85_5644-web.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatross-D85_5644-web.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatross-D85_5644-web.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Light-mantledAlbatross-D85_5644-web.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption>Light-mantled Albatross (<em>Phoebetria palpebrata<\/em>) resting on a ledge on the southern shore of Perseverance Harbour, Campbell Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Light-mantled Albatross are stunning in their shaded grey\/brown plumage with white partial eye-ring and pale blue bill sulcus. When perched they have a slightly surprised comical look that transforms into this graceful aerodynamic shape in flight. They are closely related to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria fusca) (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/nzbirdsonline.org.nz\/?q=node\/143\" target=\"_blank\">Sooty Albatross (<em>Phoebetria fusca<\/em>)<\/a> and are also known as Light-mantled Sooty Albatross  but that seems a bit of a mouthful. Sooty Albatross have darker plumage over their back and a yellow\/orange bill sulcus. They are vagrants to New Zealand waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos with Nikon D850 and Nikon 500mm f5.6VR lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographing Light-mantled Albatross in Perseverance Harbour, Campbell Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Light-mantled Albatross photographed in Perseverance Harbour, Campbell Island.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,29,142],"tags":[145,578,26,25,220,171,685,689,690,691,692,688],"class_list":["post-11771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-new-zealand","category-subantarctic","tag-albatross","tag-bird","tag-bird-photography","tag-birds","tag-birds-in-flight","tag-campbell-island","tag-heritage-expeditions","tag-light-mantled-albatross","tag-light-mantled-sooty-albatross","tag-new-zealand-subantarctic-islands","tag-perseverance-harbour","tag-sooty-albatross","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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