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Paradise Duck coming in to land.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After our morning trip to the Rotorua lakefront we headed up to end the day at Lake Okareka. This was the last place I had photographed before the lockdown so it was great to return. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paradise Drake<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The lack of disturbance along the boardwalk seemed to have encouraged the birds to approach more closely and there were huge flocks of Canada Geese and Paradise Ducks on the calm water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada Geese flying in front of autumnal tones a of Lombardy Poplar<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A good mob of young Welcome Swallows were hawking above and a couple of Pied Stilts patrolled the shoreline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pied Stilt in the still water at the lake margin<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Photos with Nikon D850 and Nikon 500mm f5.6PF lens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photographing birds at Lake Okareka after escaping the COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[26,25,220,299,601,484,144,247,221,509,311,609,603,297,729,730,639,228,434],"class_list":["post-12328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-new-zealand","tag-bird-photography","tag-birds","tag-birds-in-flight","tag-canada-geese","tag-geese","tag-lake-okareka","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand-bird","tag-nikon","tag-nikon-500mm-f5-6pf","tag-nikon-d850","tag-nikonnz","tag-nz-birds","tag-okareka","tag-paradise-duck","tag-paradise-shelduck","tag-pied-stilt","tag-rotorua","tag-stilt","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"\nEscape from Lockdown - 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