Taranaki photographer spent weeks befriending rare white fantail to get amazing shots
(WorldNews New Zealand)

A patient Taranaki photographer spent a week just getting to know a rare white fantail before he even tried to get photos of it. A pure white leucistic fantail photographed in Stratford, Taranaki. Source: Guy Vickers Guy Vickers of Stratford, who has taken photos for 25 years, initially set out to teach himself the difficult skill of photographing birds, and set his sights on local blackbirds, ducks, hawks and sparrows - before a chance encounter. `As I was sitting there under a shrub, three fantails flew over the top of me and one of them was bright white, and I thought, that`s weird - maybe one of them was a different bird,` Mr Vickers said. `I came home and told my family and my son said...