Penguin Rescue Update

Before dinner

​Happy birthday to Jen and Daniel today
I had planned to be with you, but penguins got in the way. On Tuesday the full team came out and we uplifted the chicks. In the process we found Mrs Old, underweight and needing help. Bronwyn then got a message from a friend in Waikouaiti, about a penguin at the north end. It was an emaciated moulting Tawaki with dog footprints on the beach within 1m of its hiding place. Bronwyn and Murray rescued it!
This left us with 12 new penguins, so Jan came out and gave me a hand with the feeding. With soft fish, half of it was all over us by the time we had finished, but the penguins were much better on Wednesday morning.

Rabbits galore

​The sun shone on Wednesday, so I went to town and did the messages in the morning and just caught up with myself in the afternoon. On Thursday morning, we checked the colonies and Robbie erected the soft release pen so we can house the tagged fledglings in a way that they are unlikely to remove the tags. All that is left for me to do is dig in the skirt.
On Saturday, it was another thin female Hoiho, and another Tawaki. I got a message from Mel in the Auckland Islands that there was a stranded Snares Crested penguin here on the point. I have been out twice so far and not found it.

After dinner

Have a great week!
Rosalie