02/11/2026
🐦 Bird Photography Workshop | Shakespear Regional Park
📅 Saturday, 14 November 2026
⏰ 8:30 am – 10:30 am
📍 Shakespear Regional Park, Okoromai Bay
Sign up here: https://scene.sonyanz.com/events/bird-photography-at-shakespear-regional-park-nov-2026
With summer just around the corner, I’m heading back to Shakespear Regional Park for another morning of bird photography, and I’d love you to join me!
This time, we’re starting a little later in the morning, making the most of the brighter light and mid-tide conditions around the Okoromai Bay wetlands.
We’ll be looking out for shorebirds feeding along the tidal flats, native birds around the wetlands and hopefully some tūī enjoying the beautiful red pōhutukawa flowers as they begin to bloom.
It’s a wonderful time of year to explore bird photography, with opportunities to work on bird behaviour, composition, natural backgrounds, autofocus and camera settings.
This is a relaxed, hands-on photography walk, open to all experience levels and camera brands. I’ll be sharing tips along the way, and there will also be a selection of Sony telephoto and super-telephoto lenses available to try.
☕ And there’s more!
After the workshop, we’ll head to Cherry Café from 11 am to 12 pm for a relaxed coffee or early lunch catch-up, bird photography chat and image review.
A great opportunity to connect with fellow photographers, share our images and continue the conversation.
The catch-up is a separate event, so make sure you register for that too!
Looking forward to another morning of observing, learning and creating together!