Lord of the Wings - J.R.R.T. - Part II

 We will kick off with the second half and final part of our memories of New Zealand as soon as the

HAKA
is over. Again a pictorial but with the difference being more creatures of the pelagic kind and others!

starting with

BLACK-BACKED (KELP) GULL

PARADISE SHELDUCK
(female - ladies before gentlemen)

and male.

GREY WARBLER

N.Z. FUR SEAL

WRYBILL

with the odd individual having the curve to the left.

Transiting the Queen Charlotte Sound towards
South Island

CAPE (Pintado / Painted) PETREL

DUSKY DOLPHIN

PELAGIC TRAWLER
The wind was rising easterly, the morning sky was blue,

the straights before us opened wide and free.

We looked toward the Admiral where high the Peter flew,

and all our hearts were dancing like the sea.

The French are gone to Martinique, with four and twenty sail,

the old Superb is Old and Foul and Slow.

But the French are gone to Martinique, and Nelson's on the trail;

and where he goes the Old Superb must go!

NORTHERN

GIANT PETREL
So Westward ho! for Trinidad and Eastward ho! for Spain,

And "ship-ahoy" a hundred times a day.

Round the World if need be, and round the World again, a Lame Duck lagging, lagging all the way!

THE OLD SUPERB - Sir Henry Newbolt

 Never did get a GRIP of all the Navigational stuff!!

and the adapted song which won us, the Bramcote Hills School for Boys, the Victor Ludorum at the Nottingham Albert Hall in 1960.

The Fjord at Merchison, South Island.
another

WHITE-FACED HERON

CALIFORNIA QUAIL
another import.

N.Z. PIGEON

BANDED DOTTEREL
with

juvenile

BLUE-WATTLED CROW

N.Z. ROBIN

SADDLEBACK

A view from Murchison

BANDED RAIL

N.Z. FANTAIL

TUI

To conclude, we all know that ADVICE is only for Giving but not for Taking which luckily in this case was not the way of things. Preceeding us to these 2 Magical Islands in the Tazman Sea portion of the Pacific Ocean was our Friend and fellow Wildlifer Mark Forster who had simply said:-

"Miss Kaikoura at Your Peril"

and didn't, meeting with Captain Gary Melville and Skipper Tracy Cooper, no further words needed, save maybe for names!

all

three

WANDERING ALBATROSS

WESTLAND PETREL

WHITE-CAPPED ALBATROSS

WHITE-FRONTED TERN

and favourite until last, but a very hard call,

SALVIN'S (shy) ALBATROSS