2017 Highlights
This year has been dominated by my Master's research, but it has also been a fun year photographically. Although my usual adventures were limited, being involved in seabird research has…
This year has been dominated by my Master's research, but it has also been a fun year photographically. Although my usual adventures were limited, being involved in seabird research has…
It was Dad processing photos for a blog this morning that reminded me I didn't have anything written. It's nice to be home, briefly, for the holiday season. I'm still…
I stuffed quite a bit of photography into my brief time in Geelong - both during the conference and after it! A lot of what I've been doing this year…
The alternative title for this post is "Edin does the science". I've written a few posts about my Master's project over the course of this year which you can read…
Although my research is focused on Grey-faced petrels, I've got to know the other seabird inhabitants of the Hauraki Gulf quite well this year. These sleek birds - Flesh-footed shearwaters…
It's been busy. I've been doing the last lot of fieldwork for my Master's thesis. It's extremely nocturnal. I went to the Australasian Ornithological Conference in Geelong. I don't have…
First you hear it. Like river rapids rushing over rocks, a frothing, hissing, bubbling sound that erupts out of nowhere. But there is no river, because you're out at sea,…
It's another quick post from Edin, because damn am I all over the place right now! All going to plan I will return from the Australasian Ornithological Conference (and a…
Today's post is a bit of a cheat, because it's actually just a link to a blog I wrote for the Northern New Zealand Seabird Trust. I shared some photos…
In a word, my life at the moment is hectic. But I don't mind at all, because I thrive on action. And what's keeping me busy at the moment is…
Seabird science is glamorous. I spend a lot of time lying down, face-first in the mud, with my arm in a hole in the ground. Like so: At the moment,…
On the 20th of September I had one of those moments. One of those moments of pure joy and excitement at seeing a new species of bird for the first…
Photography is about focus. I'm not apologising for that pun. Obviously images being sharp is a good start. But to get good, sharp images, it's also important to be concentrated…
A few weeks ago I was supremely fortunate to spend a few nights on Burgess Island in the Mokohinau group to help out with seabird research. We were thwarted by…
Can you tell this blog was written today, in a bit of a hurry? Usually I have a buffer of blog posts that are scheduled to run - at the…