This is one (at least to me) weird looking bird...anytime I see an image of a bird of never seen let alone heard of..is way cool. Is this an adult? I guess flightless? TFS Ditto on the water marking...
This certainly captures the Weka's personality! I once watched a Weka sort through a pile of clothes left on the beach by a swimmer. Through my binoculars I saw the Weka carefully choose the dainty underwear and run off into the bush. The female swimmer was beyond confused when she found her clothes totally disturbed and her underwear gone. I'm sure she thought there was a prankster in the woods. I was just too far away to tell her the real tale.
Yes, interesting perspective, and like Randy I am wanting more info on the making of this image. BTW embedded exif reads: 1/80s., f/8, ISO 1000. Must have been relatively dark ou there.
I got the image from my website and forgot that there even was a water marking, sorry.
@ Randy: I was behind the camera.
@ Paul: an adult and indeed flightless, big rail.
@ Nancy: Great story :)
@ Daniel: there wasn't much light, but I had a polarisationfilter on my lense so that also took a lot of light.
exif:
5D mkII with canon 17/40mm @ 19mm.
iso 1000, F8, 1/80 @ about 25cm.