Thanks for taking us along on another great adventure and lesson! Really enjoyed learning about the wrybill and looking forward to your next adventure and sharing of your craft/workflow!
Gerrit, this is a fabulous video! I love how your videos are such a great blend of storytelling, natural history and photography instruction. Always looking forward to your next one!
Un vídeo realmente superior. Tengo que decir que comparto tu pasión por las aves playeras, son mis predilectas y sobre todo disfruto mucho observando y fotografiando su día a día. un saludo desde las antípodas España.
Great video and pictures Gerrit. Really love your way of storytelling, music and the atmosphere you create in your images and video. Thank you so much for sharing this trip and these amazing birds with us.
Wonderful video with beautiful footage and images! Your presentation style is excellent; a nice combination of subject information, imagery, and video. Looks like the birds really were cooperative. Thanks for taking us along and sharing, always enjoy your videos.
Great shots of a really interesting bird! Looks like an awesome place for photography, and the rocks didn't look too sharp to lie upon 😁 Always a treat when you release a new video.
That was a beautiful video with excellent images, and in a really gorgeous location. You really had me smiling when the chicks snuggled under mom! What a thrill for you that they got so close! I can't get down on rocks like that anymore so thank you for doing it!!
That was awesome Gerritt, thank you so much for doing this and then sharing the process and of course the photographs. It was especially wonderful to see the chicks and the brooding parent. It was so nice to see the vistas and waterways for that area of the world. Keep up this good work and thank you again.
Great video. A few questions. How far did you hike to get to the spot? Which tripod did you use? I saw you put the tripod in the water but it didn’t look like you have protection on bottom of legs, did you? Thanks!
I saw the first Wrybill about a quarter of a mile for where I was parked. I was out all day and probably covered 2-3 miles just exploring difference areas of the braider river. I only had my Gitzo tripod (not sure which model that one is) with a Wimberley gimbal head (not recommended for video!). I generally don't worry about putting my tripod in fresh water especially if I am not likely to be submerging the joints. If I am in salt or muddy water or submerging beyond the leg joints I use these Avocet Tripod Waders from Tragopan: photographyblinds.com/collections/tripod-accessories/products/avocet-tripod-waders
Great video. Can I ask, with the Z9 and the videos here, is the bird being tracked automatically or are you pulling focus manually or using some kind of spot focusing?
I've been manually focusing with DSLR video for many years so am pretty adept at pulling focus and predicting focus, even with the poor monitoring. That said, the new tracking is a potential game changer in some situations and I have been experimenting with it. I haven't used it enough yet to have it dialed in so I relied mostly on manual focusing but did try some sequences with autofocus.
I love your videos and my only complaint is that you don't post enough of them lol I also love wrybills but have never photographed them during the nesting season or in braided river beds. I'm a Kiwi bird photographer from the North Island, now living in Northern Ireland. It was awesome watching your video and it made me quite homesick lol Did you look for black stilts?, I know there are some nesting up where you were? Did you photograph the black fronted terns?, they are also a favorite of mine. Any way thanks so much for sharing your adventure with us.
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These birds are traveling more than me! 🐦✈
Spectacular.
Beautiful bird, beautiful photos
the man the myth the legend has returned
Thanks for taking us along on another great adventure and lesson! Really enjoyed learning about the wrybill and looking forward to your next adventure and sharing of your craft/workflow!
Thanks, John!
Beautiful pictures you made. I love shorebirds too. The beak is really special. great video. Greets Stefan
Thank you Stefan!
Keep up with your passion. 👍👍 I like your videos. 👍
What a pleasant video.
Thank you for sharing this adventure with us.
hopefully I can join you birding in New Zealand.
Quite magical. Wonderful. Well done. Thank you, Gerrit. ATA
Thanks Travis!
Awesome clip, thanks for uploading. I love getting in amongst nature, just quietly waiting for that moment between us and the wildlife around us.
For sure!! Thanks.
Absolutely stunning. An unequaled combo of educational lesson, technical expertise, and artistry. Bravo!
Thank you very much, Gary. Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing footage and images! Such a pleasure to learn about the Wrybill👍
Thank you!
Gerrit, this is a fabulous video! I love how your videos are such a great blend of storytelling, natural history and photography instruction. Always looking forward to your next one!
Thank you, Doug!
Great video. Never heard of the Wrybill before. Amazing close-ups!
Thank you!!
Un vídeo realmente superior. Tengo que decir que comparto tu pasión por las aves playeras, son mis predilectas y sobre todo disfruto mucho observando y fotografiando su día a día. un saludo desde las antípodas España.
¡Muchas gracias Abel! ¡Las aves playeras son las mejores!
beautiful video Gerrit! And you took some fantastic photos
Thank you!
Beautiful! I didn’t know about Wrybills, so this was a lovely introduction.
Super, thank you!
Thanks for the video and images. I recall photographing these birds using Velvia.
I have a file cabinet full of those memories too :)
Whoa, didn’t know you had a RUclips channel Gerritt. What a wonderful vlog!
Just barely :) Thanks Mark!
Great VLOG Gerrit
Thanks 👍
little dude has huge feet! wow, awesome stuff! thank you!
yes, their legs and feet are critical early on for feeding and avoiding predation so they hatch very well developed.
Great video and pictures Gerrit. Really love your way of storytelling, music and the atmosphere you create in your images and video. Thank you so much for sharing this trip and these amazing birds with us.
Thank you!!
Wonderful video with beautiful footage and images! Your presentation style is excellent; a nice combination of subject information, imagery, and video. Looks like the birds really were cooperative. Thanks for taking us along and sharing, always enjoy your videos.
Much appreciated. Thank you!
Wonderful video . thank you .
Thank you!
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Great shots of a really interesting bird! Looks like an awesome place for photography, and the rocks didn't look too sharp to lie upon 😁 Always a treat when you release a new video.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you!
That was a beautiful video with excellent images, and in a really gorgeous location. You really had me smiling when the chicks snuggled under mom! What a thrill for you that they got so close! I can't get down on rocks like that anymore so thank you for doing it!!
It’s getting harder and harder and harder to lie on those rocks etc. for me too :) thank you!
Such a professional video! 👍 Loved the photos as well…what a cool experience! 😍
Thanks Linda!
That was awesome Gerritt, thank you so much for doing this and then sharing the process and of course the photographs. It was especially wonderful to see the chicks and the brooding parent. It was so nice to see the vistas and waterways for that area of the world. Keep up this good work and thank you again.
Much appreciated Peter. Thank you!
Great video. A few questions.
How far did you hike to get to the spot?
Which tripod did you use?
I saw you put the tripod in the water but it didn’t look like you have protection
on bottom of legs, did you?
Thanks!
I saw the first Wrybill about a quarter of a mile for where I was parked. I was out all day and probably covered 2-3 miles just exploring difference areas of the braider river. I only had my Gitzo tripod (not sure which model that one is) with a Wimberley gimbal head (not recommended for video!). I generally don't worry about putting my tripod in fresh water especially if I am not likely to be submerging the joints. If I am in salt or muddy water or submerging beyond the leg joints I use these Avocet Tripod Waders from Tragopan: photographyblinds.com/collections/tripod-accessories/products/avocet-tripod-waders
Great video. Can I ask, with the Z9 and the videos here, is the bird being tracked automatically or are you pulling focus manually or using some kind of spot focusing?
I've been manually focusing with DSLR video for many years so am pretty adept at pulling focus and predicting focus, even with the poor monitoring. That said, the new tracking is a potential game changer in some situations and I have been experimenting with it. I haven't used it enough yet to have it dialed in so I relied mostly on manual focusing but did try some sequences with autofocus.
I love your videos and my only complaint is that you don't post enough of them lol
I also love wrybills but have never photographed them during the nesting season or in braided river beds.
I'm a Kiwi bird photographer from the North Island, now living in Northern Ireland.
It was awesome watching your video and it made me quite homesick lol
Did you look for black stilts?, I know there are some nesting up where you were?
Did you photograph the black fronted terns?, they are also a favorite of mine.
Any way thanks so much for sharing your adventure with us.
Thanks Tony and yes, I had some Black Stilts and definitely lots of terns!
Nicely done! Very cool bird and setting. Do you suppose there is ever a “left-handed”Wrybill ?
Thanks, Kevin! Not that I know of.
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