{"id":40913,"date":"2023-03-16T20:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40913"},"modified":"2023-03-16T20:26:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:26:56","slug":"fun-with-friends-photo-5-from-marion-drolsbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/03\/16\/fun-with-friends-photo-5-from-marion-drolsbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Friends: Photo #5 from Marion Drolsbach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marion Drolsbach, translator extraordinaire \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

Woo-hoo! We’re onto Instalment #5 of the photos taken by Marion Drolsbach<\/a> when she was in Aotearoa-New Zealand late last year.<\/p>\n

Marion is a book translator and we e-met when she translated The Heir of Night <\/em><\/a>into Dutch. She is also a keen photographer and the photos were taken at the mouth of one of Canterbury\u2019s many braided rivers.<\/p>\n

This photo shows the shingle bank between the river mouth, which is effectively a lagoon, or hapua, and the sea — with plenty of black-backed gull action in between.<\/p>\n

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As Graeme Ure indicated in his comment on the preceding post<\/a>—which featured ngutuparore, the wrybilled plover—black-backed gulls can be a problem for other bird species, most particularly the endangered ones, because of their predatory habits.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, they’re spectacular in their own right in the coastal environment, especially on a stormy day (which this wasn’t) when it’s very clear that flying is their “jam.”<\/p>\n

The sea is the Pacific Ocean, by the way, for anyone who may be wondering, also known as Te Moananui A Kiwa (the great ocean of Kiwa) — and there’s pretty much nothing else between this strip of shingle and Antarctica.<\/p>\n

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Preceding Posts In the “Fun With Friends” Photo Series:<\/strong><\/h4>\n