Australasian Gannets

[Ziggy99]

There's one mainland rookery and it's fenced in against foxes. I got lucky when visiting as a volunteer let me in. It was possible to shoot 10-20m away from the breeding birds.

It's high on a point overlooking the sea so occasionally you can shoot downwards on a bird.

ILCE-9    FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter    445mm    f/8.0    1/3000s    ISO 500

ILCE-9    FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter    560mm    f/8.0    1/3000s    ISO 640

This courting behaviour is called fencing ...

ILCE-9    FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter    560mm    f/8.0    1/3000s    ISO 500

and it leads to ...

ILCE-9    FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter    560mm    f/8.0    1/1000s    ISO 160

 

[Richard Crowe]

Excellent captures...