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Wednesday, 27 April 2005
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Monday, 25 April 2005
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This morning I added the Thrush to the list of birds I have on photographic record. I snapped this through my front windows. The glass in these windows is old and is full of imperfections which distort the view. This makes taking pictures through them rather challenging because you not only have to move around to get the best view of the subject, but also to find relatively 'flat' piece of glass to focus through. In this case the wonky glass has created quite a nice effect with the background while not really effecting the subject (I didn't do any Photoshop filters, honest!)
6:20:23 PM 
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005
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I've been working from home today. I've had this feathered friend for company. She's got quite a taste for the berries on this tree near my front door, which I can see from where I sit at my computer. I let her eat all the berries she wants in exchange for a picture or two. I sense a keen intelligence in the blackbird. They can live up to 15 years which means this one has probably lived in this valley longer than I have.
5:33:39 PM
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Thursday, 14 April 2005
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9:55:36 PM
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Saturday, 2 April 2005
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I took this picture (one of 36) of a lone White Heron (Kotuku) in Whakapuaka Estuary this morning.
In Maori culture one of the highest compliments, is to compare someone to Kotuku. The White Heron symbolise everything rare and beautiful. It is easy to understand why, particularly when they leap into flight with a slow elegant wing beat. Kotuku was believed to be an inhabitant of the the spirit world, hence these words from an old funeral chant...
"Ko to kotuku to tapui, e Tama - e" (Kotuku is now thy sole companion, O my son!).
8:58:48 PM
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Murray Neill
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