Stitches came back!

Stitches is back! On 28 April we posted photos of Stitches' injuries that had been stitched up by the kind vets at the St Kildas vet clinic in Dunedin and we released him on 4 May weighing 6.2kg. He was ready to go. And then he came back. On 2 June he was sitting on a path we regularly use in the Yellow-eyed penguin colony waiting to be taken to hospital. He had lost a bit of weight, now only 3.2kg. We have had some rough weather and he obviously struggled to find food so he came home for a bit of TLC. We could scarcely believe it was the same bird as the wound is now only a little indentation on his lower belly - so no leaking dive suit (we quadrupled checked his chip!). This injury was a killer and without the vets the bird would have died. So thank you for your kindness and expertise! You have definitely saved this wee guy - may he live long and make many, many babies!