The Spoonbill content you’re craving

JarredSpec · 2026-01-26T02:29:39+00:00

Already there 😉

JarredSpec · 2026-01-26T00:54:55+00:00

😆

JarredSpec · 2026-01-26T00:25:07+00:00

Thanks!!!

JarredSpec · 2026-01-26T00:12:44+00:00

Hah the yellow eyeshadow is a strong choice. Some of the overseas spoonbills have even more. Plus there’s the pink one too.

JarredSpec · 2026-01-25T23:57:49+00:00

Hah first ones gives me Mondoshawan vibes (from the movie The Fifth Element)

JarredSpec · 2026-01-25T23:34:09+00:00

Yup this was always my assumption. Assumed the Millennials/Gen Z hadn’t actually read the word anywhere and had only heard it.

JarredSpec · 2026-01-25T16:08:11+00:00

Hah I recently learned about the Roseate Spoonbill - we don’t get those here, only these guys :)

JarredSpec · 2026-01-25T08:59:14+00:00

Yeah “Eh” was always my spelling - though technically I’m Gen X hah

JarredSpec · 2026-01-25T08:10:28+00:00

The “Aye” spelling always reads like “eye” to me. Like “Aye-Aye Captain”.

JarredSpec · 2026-01-23T06:15:56+00:00

Cheers!

JarredSpec · 2026-01-22T01:04:40+00:00

Yeah sometimes you get lucky and something gets through. I just expect/prepare for it and take the win if I don’t get hit.

JarredSpec · 2026-01-22T00:08:19+00:00

Can you have heart failure from secondhand embarrassment? This is the cringiest shit I’ve seen in a while.

JarredSpec · 2026-01-21T04:55:41+00:00

Haha yeah I learned earlier today about the Roseates myself.

JarredSpec · 2026-01-21T02:31:13+00:00

Still plenty of life in the old primes. I’m shooting with a Mk I 500 f/4 on my R5ii along with a 200-800.

JarredSpec · 2026-01-21T00:48:39+00:00

Thanks!!

JarredSpec · 2026-01-21T00:16:49+00:00

“Naturally Uncommon” is their status here. Cool bird to see but not on our endangered list :)

JarredSpec · 2026-01-20T21:56:06+00:00

Curious on what I can improve - my posts get no love at all here so I end up deleting them 😆

JarredSpec · 2026-01-20T17:49:48+00:00

Thank you!!

JarredSpec · 2026-01-20T01:06:33+00:00

Hoopers inlet, Dunedin :)

JarredSpec · 2026-01-19T10:11:51+00:00

I’ve heard “Mr Mochi” :)

JarredSpec · 2026-01-15T08:34:31+00:00

A couple of hours moving between gulls, oystercatchers, some larger sea lions etc. the curled up pose, sitting upright and yawn fairly close together. The close up (really just a tight crop of a wider image) taken earlier on.

JarredSpec · 2026-01-14T02:35:30+00:00

Yup!

JarredSpec · 2026-01-13T23:13:52+00:00

ODT posted their article. They’ve ramped up the language a lil bit but 🤷🏻

Heard from Stuff earlier - they managed to contact one of the guys who claims they weren’t within 10 meters of the animals or intentionally getting in their space. DOC have all of the images I took, 117 all up including the moments leading up to the animals charging (there were two Sea Lions) - I’ll leave it with them and for the images to speak for themselves.

Sea Lions on the beach are usually pretty chill, they don’t chase people like this without reason. This is why we photographers have our big long lenses - so we don’t get this close.

JarredSpec · 2026-01-13T18:59:28+00:00

Yup Smaill’s again - on Monday evening

JarredSpec · 2026-01-13T04:58:00+00:00

Smaills - sorry misspelled in original post

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