The only Weka (Gallirallus australis) I can remember seeing were on family holidays when I was a kid. We’d stop at the side of the road for a snack break or to stretch our legs and they might appear out of the verges.

How fitting it was, then, that it was while I was retracing the route of those very holidays that a pair of Weka would suddenly appear out of a road verge while I was stopped!

Unfortunately, I had stopped to shoot wide landscape scenes so had totally the wrong lens on the camera and this is not as high quality as I would have liked.