An ambitious project to turn a once-grazed Northland valley back into a lush wetland has been completed thanks to funding from hunting and fishing licences..
The completion of the second stage of an ambitious project to rewild a once grazed Northland valley into a lush wetland has been celebrated with an event to mark World Wetlands Day. The Underwood Wetland project near Dargaville commenced seven years .
“I was cleaning up the dead birds from around the edge of the pond when I saw this shoveler duck . I knew he was going to burst out of the trees at some stage, so I was ready for him, and I managed to get him in flight,” Winter said.
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Marlborough photographer Matt Winter autographs 250 copies of his print for NZ Post. Winter said it was difficult to get the underside of a shoveler duck as they moved so quickly in flight. “The hardest thing with that sort of shot is getting the camera to focus on a moving subject. Imagine a duck flying, it is pretty quick and you don t know exactly where he’s going.