This is the third time this year that I have been on the side of Hemp in New Zealand. The first two times were to shoot the sunbird, this time, it was still for the sunbird, but the preparation was to shoot the maple leaf bottle trunk tree on the sunbird. There are clumps of New Zealand hemp in front of the trees, and in addition to sunbirds, black-headed wonderlands also come to the flowers to suck honey. Therefore, there are multiple opportunities to stay here.
The sunbirds on the New Zealand hemp have little attraction for me and Liu Shi, although I have only come to Shou to shoot twice, and I have not made any good films, but I always want to make some films with other themes. When we came to the Golden Temple a few weeks ago, every time we walked to this cluster of flowers, we saw sunbirds standing on the branches of the flowers. There was no waiting, and when the sunbirds flew away, we also left, holding our cameras and going to patrol the mountains. When I returned, I saw the sunbird again, so I photographed it leaving again, and then went on a mountain tour.
But there was no such good luck on this day, and the rain fell all night, and it did not stop after dawn. There are shiny water droplets on the branches, but it is not known whether the nectar in the flower tube is diluted by the rain, or simply washed away by the rain. After waiting and waiting, the sunbird finally came, and it stood slightly on the flower branch and left. More suspicious: is there still nectar in the flower tube? Although I doubted, I continued to wait. Liu Shi even said: We have all come, and we can't leave without finding anything. The sunbirds came only twice throughout the morning.
In the afternoon, the sunbirds came more diligently, and it can be seen that although it has rained for such a long time, there are still nectar in the flower tube. At the same time, I also knew that the sunbird was really hungry, so it braved the rain to come out to forage. And the bird shooters, who also stand in the rain with umbrellas, look more persistent than hungry birds.
The rain kept falling, and there were drops of water hanging from the branches. The birds are very light, they stand on the branches of the flowers, and they have no effect on the water droplets. But the rain obviously has an effect on the birds. When they suck nectar, they will be stained with water droplets on their mouths and heads, sometimes with water droplets hanging from their long beaks, and sometimes they will shake their heads and shake the water beads away. When it is time to fly away from the branches, the branches feel the weight of the birds: the droplets of water on the branches will drip as they take off.
Throughout the day, the black-headed grebe did not appear. Fortunately, there are also sunbirds to suck in nectar. Although many sunbirds have been photographed on Hemp in New Zealand, rainy days are still different. One is that the light is dark, and the other is that there are water droplets on the flower branches, and the picture looks even more beautiful, with the texture of oil painting.