Grey Fantail

[Bear Dale]

Grey Fantail

Scientific name: Rhipidura albiscapa

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[Desmond]

We have them in New Zealand too - very jittery and hard to photograph

 

[Philinnz]

the maori name is piwakawaka - just thought you might want to know

 

[Bear Dale]

Cheers for that info, I didn't know that you Kiwi's had them as well. They must have got blown over there on a strong Westerly wind

 

[Philinnz]

Cheers for that info, I didn't know that you Kiwi's had them as well. They must have got blown over there on a strong Westerly wind

yes there are actually several species here that are believed to have blown over - the white heron for example, occasionally we get pelicans and the odd kookaburra.

 

[Bear Dale]

yes there are actually several species here that are believed to have blown over - the white heron for example, occasionally we get pelicans and the odd kookaburra.

Very interesting Phil, imagine how many haven't found land. We are currently experiencing terrible Westerlies and massive out of control bushfires right up and down the East coast, you're lucky your not getting our smoke.

Last year we had literally tonnes of pumice stone wash up from NZ.

 

[Philinnz]

Very interesting Phil, imagine how many haven't found land. We are currently experiencing terrible Westerlies and massive out of control bushfires right up and down the East coast, you're lucky your not getting our smoke.

Last year we had literally tonnes of pumice stone wash up from NZ.

we do get your smoke, from time to time it makes the sunsets quite pretty. I think the pumice was from an undersea volcano in the Pacific somewhere - near tonga - there are some pretty amazing pictures if you google pumice raft

 

[Bear Dale]

The smoke going out to sea from just south of our beach (3.5 hours drive south of Sydney) was incredible yesterday afternoon.

 

[Desmond]

Someone we spoke to on the weekend mentioned that they could see the red sky in the direction of Australia from Raglan.

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[Randy]

great comp on that perch and perfect pose
technicals are great as well