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Jon Sullivan
@joncounts@mastodon.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

they paved Seagull Pit, put up a parking lot...

I was disappointed to find this week that the seagulls have all been banished from the Christchurch "Seagull Pit" and it's now another car park.

After the Christchurch earthquakes, the badly damaged PricewaterhouseCoopers Building was demolished, leaving the remains of the foundation, which filled with water. To everyone's surprise, a group of tarāpuka , black-billed gulls, found it and formed a breeding colony, right in the middle of the city. They're the rarest of NZ's seagulls and typically breed on temporary gravel islands in braided rivers.

On Google Maps and Apple Maps the site was listed as a Tourist Attraction called "Seagull Pit", open 24 hours.

The area was always going become another building eventually. In the meantime, instead of gulls, we've now got another carpark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_Seagull_Pit

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360791815/laser-beams-and-electro-magnetic-fields-seagull-pit-fight-goes-hi-tech

#seagulls #birds #nz#Christchurch#Ōtautahi#PeopleVSnature

A screenshot from Apple Maps that I made today. It shows the satellite image of the foundations of the old building, labeled as "Seagull pit". The pop up window adds that it's a "Tourist attraction" and there are photos of it and under details is says "Hours: Open 24 hours". Unfortunately, this is now out of date as the site has been converted into a carpark while it waits for a new building to be built here.
A screenshot from Apple Maps that I made today. It shows the satellite image of the foundations of the old building, labeled as "Seagull pit". The pop up window adds that it's a "Tourist attraction" and there are photos of it and under details is says "Hours: Open 24 hours". Unfortunately, this is now out of date as the site has been converted into a carpark while it waits for a new building to be built here.
A screenshot from Apple Maps that I made today. It shows the satellite image of the foundations of the old building, labeled as "Seagull pit". The pop up window adds that it's a "Tourist attraction" and there are photos of it and under details is says "Hours: Open 24 hours". Unfortunately, this is now out of date as the site has been converted into a carpark while it waits for a new building to be built here.
A photo of three adult black-billed gulls, and a red-billed gull, nesting on a concrete beam in the remains of the foundation of a demolished city building. Under one of the black-billed gulls you can see a fluffy grey chick. I took this photo in February 2020.
A photo of three adult black-billed gulls, and a red-billed gull, nesting on a concrete beam in the remains of the foundation of a demolished city building. Under one of the black-billed gulls you can see a fluffy grey chick. I took this photo in February 2020.
A photo of three adult black-billed gulls, and a red-billed gull, nesting on a concrete beam in the remains of the foundation of a demolished city building. Under one of the black-billed gulls you can see a fluffy grey chick. I took this photo in February 2020.
A photo from 2020 of the three people watching gulls through a wire meshed viewing window in a fence. The gull colony was somewhere between an attraction and a curiosity and a nuisance, depending on who you talked to. The photo shows my daughter and two visiting animal behaviour experts from the US, so it was definitely an attraction for them.
A photo from 2020 of the three people watching gulls through a wire meshed viewing window in a fence. The gull colony was somewhere between an attraction and a curiosity and a nuisance, depending on who you talked to. The photo shows my daughter and two visiting animal behaviour experts from the US, so it was definitely an attraction for them.
A photo from 2020 of the three people watching gulls through a wire meshed viewing window in a fence. The gull colony was somewhere between an attraction and a curiosity and a nuisance, depending on who you talked to. The photo shows my daughter and two visiting animal behaviour experts from the US, so it was definitely an attraction for them.
Jon Sullivan
@joncounts@mastodon.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

they paved Seagull Pit, put up a parking lot...

I was disappointed to find this week that the seagulls have all been banished from the Christchurch "Seagull Pit" and it's now another car park.

After the Christchurch earthquakes, the badly damaged PricewaterhouseCoopers Building was demolished, leaving the remains of the foundation, which filled with water. To everyone's surprise, a group of tarāpuka , black-billed gulls, found it and formed a breeding colony, right in the middle of the city. They're the rarest of NZ's seagulls and typically breed on temporary gravel islands in braided rivers.

On Google Maps and Apple Maps the site was listed as a Tourist Attraction called "Seagull Pit", open 24 hours.

The area was always going become another building eventually. In the meantime, instead of gulls, we've now got another carpark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_Seagull_Pit

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360791815/laser-beams-and-electro-magnetic-fields-seagull-pit-fight-goes-hi-tech

#seagulls #birds #nz#Christchurch#Ōtautahi#PeopleVSnature

A screenshot from Apple Maps that I made today. It shows the satellite image of the foundations of the old building, labeled as "Seagull pit". The pop up window adds that it's a "Tourist attraction" and there are photos of it and under details is says "Hours: Open 24 hours". Unfortunately, this is now out of date as the site has been converted into a carpark while it waits for a new building to be built here.
A screenshot from Apple Maps that I made today. It shows the satellite image of the foundations of the old building, labeled as "Seagull pit". The pop up window adds that it's a "Tourist attraction" and there are photos of it and under details is says "Hours: Open 24 hours". Unfortunately, this is now out of date as the site has been converted into a carpark while it waits for a new building to be built here.
A screenshot from Apple Maps that I made today. It shows the satellite image of the foundations of the old building, labeled as "Seagull pit". The pop up window adds that it's a "Tourist attraction" and there are photos of it and under details is says "Hours: Open 24 hours". Unfortunately, this is now out of date as the site has been converted into a carpark while it waits for a new building to be built here.
A photo of three adult black-billed gulls, and a red-billed gull, nesting on a concrete beam in the remains of the foundation of a demolished city building. Under one of the black-billed gulls you can see a fluffy grey chick. I took this photo in February 2020.
A photo of three adult black-billed gulls, and a red-billed gull, nesting on a concrete beam in the remains of the foundation of a demolished city building. Under one of the black-billed gulls you can see a fluffy grey chick. I took this photo in February 2020.
A photo of three adult black-billed gulls, and a red-billed gull, nesting on a concrete beam in the remains of the foundation of a demolished city building. Under one of the black-billed gulls you can see a fluffy grey chick. I took this photo in February 2020.
A photo from 2020 of the three people watching gulls through a wire meshed viewing window in a fence. The gull colony was somewhere between an attraction and a curiosity and a nuisance, depending on who you talked to. The photo shows my daughter and two visiting animal behaviour experts from the US, so it was definitely an attraction for them.
A photo from 2020 of the three people watching gulls through a wire meshed viewing window in a fence. The gull colony was somewhere between an attraction and a curiosity and a nuisance, depending on who you talked to. The photo shows my daughter and two visiting animal behaviour experts from the US, so it was definitely an attraction for them.
A photo from 2020 of the three people watching gulls through a wire meshed viewing window in a fence. The gull colony was somewhere between an attraction and a curiosity and a nuisance, depending on who you talked to. The photo shows my daughter and two visiting animal behaviour experts from the US, so it was definitely an attraction for them.