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Karioitahi Beach – Auckland West Coast<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The final stop before Auckland on our Coromandel-Auckland trip was at Karioitahi Beach on the Auckland west coast. This was the first time we had visited the west coast south of Auckland so was new territory to explore. The black ironsands are similar to what we know from Kawhia, Te Henga\/Bethalls and Muriwai while the Tasman Sea, incited by the prevailing westerlies is a little more rebellious than the Pacific on the eastern side of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a small unit at Castaways resort<\/a> for a few days. A strong westerly and rain gave us some good time to catch up on reading. Flax\/harakeke edging the deck gave a landing zone for birds that I could photograph from my chair. Most exciting were the starlings which are notoriously wary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starling on Flax\/harakeke<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The grey skies gave the perfect conditions for Birds on White<\/a> photos. The 500mm lens was a little too long to get a shot including the whole flower stalk and bird so I shot a 2 image vertical panorama and assembled it in Photoshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2 shot vertical pano of Starling on Flax\/harakeke flower stalk<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A rainy drive saw us exploring a wet \u0100whitu Regional Park<\/a>. This has some lovely Fernbird\/m\u0101t\u0101t\u0101 habitat but the rain hampered our efforts to locate any of the birds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Male California Quail<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We did manage to locate a lovely male California quail acting sentry while his partner foraged on the ground below his perch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Female California Quail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once the rain had settled a walk at Karioitahi Beach gave an opportunity for a Song Thrush on a dead, wind bent flax flower stalk to add to my collection. I especially like the complementary colours in plumage and perch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Song Thrush on white<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The improved conditions made the beach a nicer place to be as a cooperative White-fronted Tern\/Tara completed the thread linking Coromandel and Auckland stages of our journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tara\/White-fronted Tern against the breaking waves of the Tasman Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Photos with Nikon D850 (Quails D500) and Nikon 500mm f5.6PF lens. Aerial panorama with DJI Mavic Pro drone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the benefits of a wet season is an ephemeral pond attracting wetland birds to the central city.","rel":"","context":"In "Bird Photography"","block_context":{"text":"Bird Photography","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/category\/bird-photography"},"img":{"alt_text":"Photo of a pair of young Poaka\/Pied Stilts exploring the edges of the temporary wetland on the Auckland Domain","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PiedStilt-20230917-NZ9_1526-NEF_DxO-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PiedStilt-20230917-NZ9_1526-NEF_DxO-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PiedStilt-20230917-NZ9_1526-NEF_DxO-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PiedStilt-20230917-NZ9_1526-NEF_DxO-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1799,"url":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/1799","url_meta":{"origin":13929,"position":5},"title":"Tiritiri Matangi","author":"tony","date":"November 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 After our stop at Miranda we headed north to Auckland with the aim of visiting Tiritiri Matangi and Muriwai. 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