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Speaker 1: We got a story in the Courier I spotted on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: So hello, Susan, wonderful to have you listening in. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: beloved locals, the black built gulls that usually call the

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Speaker 1: area around the Ashburton Bridge home this time of the year,

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Speaker 1: they would know where to be seen. So we got

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Speaker 1: Donald Field from Environment Canterbury on our bird expert and no,

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Speaker 1: she had no idea where they're gone. We were putting

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Speaker 1: a plea out for people to let us know, and

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Speaker 1: sure enough it was. It might have been that day

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Speaker 1: or certainly the day after that. The likes of chicken.

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Speaker 1: Funny enough, as we cover all different types of breeds here.

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Speaker 1: If looks me alone and along on a few other

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Speaker 1: listeners and said, look, I'm pretty sure the gals are back.

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Speaker 1: You've done something. You're like the pied piper of the

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Speaker 1: blackbuilt gals. So down there this morning, my go to

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Speaker 1: Timmeld correspondent Resident Adam Kibble White, mate, are you seeing them?

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Speaker 2: I can't confirm they are, but not in large numbers.

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Speaker 1: You down there as we speak.

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Speaker 2: I am, I'm standing on the bridge right now.

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Speaker 1: When did you first spot their return?

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Speaker 3: Uh would have possibly been about a week and a

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Speaker 3: half ago, they appeared to be back in their full volume.

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Speaker 1: So as of this morning, the numbers of thinned, the

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Speaker 1: numbers of thin.

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Speaker 2: That I'm seeing are possibly twenty twenty of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right? And are they parked up on like those

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Speaker 1: we shingle islands.

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Speaker 2: They are parked up on the edge of one of

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Speaker 2: the shingle edges.

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Speaker 1: Does it look like they've moved from where they historically nest,

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Speaker 1: because that's what Donna was saying that with the NMCTA

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Speaker 1: and all the new construction and whatnot, they're trying to

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Speaker 1: move them away from where the new bridge is going

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Speaker 1: to go.

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Speaker 3: Oh, they've they've, I would say, just purely because the

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Speaker 3: rivers moved slightly.

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Speaker 2: They've have moved maybe thirty meters away from where they were.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not getting the message that would like them too.

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Speaker 1: Do you reckon that the gals are like teenagers. They

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Speaker 1: just disappear and and come back when they're hungry and hang.

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Speaker 2: Out where you don't want them, hanging out where you

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Speaker 2: don't want them causing.

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Speaker 1: Trouble On that, I mean, do locals speaking on behalf

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Speaker 1: of whid to Timuld here as the find representers if

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Speaker 1: you are, you know, do locals. Welcome the gals you reckon.

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Speaker 2: Ah.

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Speaker 3: I would say not so much when they're hanging around town,

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Speaker 3: but as they currently sit, which is just on the river,

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Speaker 3: not harming anyone, dear, welcome.

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Speaker 1: They just feel a bit like home. You know. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing like driving across that bridge without something swooping at

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Speaker 1: you from above.

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Speaker 3: Ah.

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Speaker 1: We've been missing.

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Speaker 3: Running running the Gaunt lot every morning, hoping you don't

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Speaker 3: hit one.

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Speaker 1: Or hit something. Does it look like there's been a

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Speaker 1: driver who maybe has been a little too distracted with

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Speaker 1: the return of the gals.

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Speaker 3: Very very possible. It looks like there's a fresh hole

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Speaker 3: in the barrier about a third of the way along

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Speaker 3: the bridge.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I think it's large enough to put my

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Speaker 2: head through, but I won't put my head through.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we can encourage the locals to hang around this time.

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Speaker 1: Donna Field to be stoked.

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Speaker 3: Oh look, it's good to have them back, but it

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Speaker 3: would be good to have them further down the river

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 1: Oh you go and give them a big wave, a

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Speaker 1: big wing. Yeah, good to see you guys, and thank

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Speaker 1: you for the for the on the ground report.

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Speaker 3: No worries it all O