Sally

This is a wee yellow-eyed penguin chick from this past summer and her parents (her mum is also sponsored and is called Samantha) got her away at a very good weight of 5.8kg or so. She tried to learn to feed herself but it was not working out so well. So she came back and sat around in the colony looking skinny. Needless to say we picked her up and gave her lots of food for a couple of weeks. Here she is a couple of days after we opened the gate to let her go but it looked like she didn't wanted to go just yet (maybe our room service was just too good?). We brought her some food and checked again a couple of days later. We found her wandering around in the forest and she looked wet (it hadn't rained) so we surmised that she had given it another go. We popped her on the scales and she was just a little on the light side: under 5kg, so she came back to rehab. She is delightful and so easy to feed and it won't be long before she will get to have another go. We will do this until she succeeds - she is a clever girl to come back!