Penguin update

still guarding the chick

​Happy New Year, friends and family
We did the weighing of chicks here at Katiki on Tuesday and all the chicks are tracking okay. The heaviest is now over 5 Kgs and most chicks are still being guarded, two good signs that the fishing out there is okay so far.

beginning to grow feathers

​In the afternoon, we went to Oamaru. The town seemed empty until we got to the supermarket which was crazy busy. Wednesday morning was our morning at the TopTip and that was damp, cold and very quiet.

ready for mischief

​The team came out on Thursday morning. The first task was to microchip the 4 chicks about to creche. This was their first post-guard day and I’m sure they would have been all mixed up by the afternoon. Then we weighed the 2 chicks in K21 who had lost weight, they have caught up and were fine, so we left them in the nest.

home alone

​After making sure that the rest of the chicks were okay, we went to Okahau to do the weighing there. All those chicks are making good progress, except we could not find chick O8. 

waiting to steal fish off the penguins

Friday was wet. After a day indoors, we went to Okahau and found chick 8 that we had not seen for 3 days. It looked just fine! Yesterday was better weather so we did the rounds and the lawns. Sadly, we saw a Black backed gull predate a Red billed gull chick.
Have a great week!
Rosalie