They had seen my Anzac Day dawn service photo and were seeking permission to use the image to create a New Zealand postage stamp ...

A "big day" 1st January 2019. The first bird was a singing Tui. I opened the curtains and the first bird I saw was a Kaka, then ...

Unpredictable weather certainly played havoc with logistics of the tour; scorching hot sunny days, biblical rain and flooding and snow ...

It was just after midnight. A car parked up in a Stewart Island street. Headlights flicked off and four shadowy figures emerged ...

The Maori name "Hoiho" translates as "noise shouter" and it's not difficult to understand why! To minimise stress while handling them ...

Should we consider a mad twitch before our 9.30am flight the next morning? Of course we should!

I had the opportunity to get the twitching juices flowing, although the location was a bit of a surprise ...

New birds to the garden list this year have been New Zealand Pipit and Eurasian Skylark...

In the past H.R.H. Prince Harry, John Key the then New Zealand Prime Minister, and Bill Oddie O.B.E. have joined us on Ulva Island ...

A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the coastal town of Kaikoura on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island...

For almost 30 years Phil has been taking people kiwi spotting - forging the way to see these wild birds without disturbing them ...

All too soon I was saying goodbye to family and heading back at Heathrow to catch four planes home to New Zealand ...

I recently wrote an article called 'Stewart Island Waders' for UK charity Wader Quest which was published in their July e-newsletter...

Bill Oddie visited Stewart Island recently and as Chairman of the Ulva Island Charitable Trust I had the privilege of accompanying him ...

Oriental Plover! A lifer for my New Zealand and world list, this true global mega shared a North Island beach with NZ Dotterels ...