Following on from the below post. Pīpīwharauroa (shining cuckoo) being fed by riroriro (grey warbler) foster parents in the Brook Waimārama Sanctuary on Saturday.
I lost the birds for about 10 minutes. Then saw the riroriro pair who quickly led me to their foster child. Here's the first feeding visit I saw. The fledgling was perched on a lancewood leaf and received a feeding visit from a parent.
The fledgling kept moving, and I saw plenty more feeding visits but was not able to capture them all as I had to keep moving to find a window through the foliage. Feeding visits happen very rapidly, commonly less than a second from arrival to departure. The riroriro just posts the bug (commonly a caterpillar) in the gaping maw then leaves.
Another quick visit with a small green caterpillar.
The best - and longest - feeding visit was also the last one I was able to photograph, so it gets a blog post of its own (next post).
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