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Speaker 1: Our gull guru is Don a Field from Environment Canterbury.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back.

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Speaker 2: Oh thanks Louke. I'm pleased to be back on this

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Speaker 2: lovely sunny day.

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Speaker 1: Two rights. We had confirmation from listener Adam yesterday that

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Speaker 1: the gulls have in facts were turned around the bridge.

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Speaker 1: You've been down for a lock.

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Speaker 2: I went down and had a good look on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: I parked in the car park and walked onto the bridge.

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Speaker 3: Was to binoculars and I counted twenty nests for the

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Speaker 3: girls there, and then a few other birds hanging around

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Speaker 3: deciding whether they were going to nest or whether I'm

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Speaker 3: trying and phine somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: Well that's what Adam was saying. They were sort of

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Speaker 1: back in full flight last week and then some took

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Speaker 1: off and then some of it returned again. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: do they look happy? Do they want to be there?

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Speaker 2: I think they really want to be there, Loke. It's

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Speaker 2: you know, they keep coming back to that same site regularly. However,

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Speaker 2: the river is running so high.

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Speaker 3: It's been running at.

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Speaker 2: Around forty q mex and we we've been trying to

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Speaker 2: do a bird survey and we need a flow of

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Speaker 2: seventeen tumics. So the birds are also probably thinking, gosh,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of water in the river.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, okay, So this survey, it's every year where

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Speaker 1: yourself and a band of buddies essentially the whole day

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Speaker 1: out to walk along the river and just count what's there.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we do.

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Speaker 2: We start sort of up between Thompson's track and then

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Speaker 2: forests and birds really involved in it. And oh well

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Speaker 2: quite a few people are involved actually, And we walked

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Speaker 2: down the river and teams of four and see what

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Speaker 2: birds we are because it's not just the girls that

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Speaker 2: are in the Asperton. We've got the turns back front

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Speaker 2: of turns and banded dottals and pied stilts, all sorts

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Speaker 2: of birds.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right on, So they're back in the usual spot.

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Speaker 1: When we spoke last time, we mentioned how there's been

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Speaker 1: some work with NZTA to create them a cushy new

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Speaker 1: island to try and draw them away from what is

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Speaker 1: soon to be a construction site with the new bridge.

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Speaker 1: Do we need to make a little more inviting, put

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Speaker 1: out some nice couches or PlayStation or something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that does.

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Speaker 3: It's catches.

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Speaker 2: What is what they're wanting that what they like is

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Speaker 2: water sort of surrounding them and not too much though

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Speaker 2: not too much, and a bit of a gentle beat

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Speaker 2: so that they can go down and get into the

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Speaker 2: water with their chicks. And besides that, we don't you know,

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Speaker 2: it's hard to say what the goals are actually looking for.

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Speaker 1: You must be stoked that they've returned.

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Speaker 3: I'm pleased they've return.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really pleased they're return But I know that

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Speaker 2: for many people that it's not so much fun for them.

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Speaker 2: Probably the smaller numbers makes it a bit more manageable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they know as much car cleaning or roof cleaning.

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Speaker 1: It's Harvey Norman required with that volume.

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Speaker 2: I think you know people because I go down and

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Speaker 2: have a lot every time I go down and have

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Speaker 2: a lot with other people having a lot off the

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Speaker 2: bridge with binoculars, and are really keen to talk.

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Speaker 1: About those gals know they're locals. They're they're they're they're

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Speaker 1: part of the part of the picture here at mid Canterbury.

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Speaker 1: So good to see you back from someone who lives

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Speaker 1: on the other side of the town. Team