Today has felt like winter is definitely drawing to an end. We've had clear blue skies and sunshine over Gough, and the icing on the cake were the first 3 Rockhopper Penguins back at Tumbledown beach, seen whilst carrying out our regular Fur Seal pup weighing. Our Rockhoppers have been absent from the island for a good few months now, feeding in the Atlantic over the winter. They are now returning nice and fat, ready for another breeding season. The 3 that we saw today certainly looked very rotund and healthy, and once we have a few more back we'll start weighing them just to see how successful winter feeding was for them. And we should even see our first few eggs appearing in September before we hand the island over to the new team!
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| Our first Rockhopper! (David Kinchin-Smith) |
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| Check out that tummy! (David Kinchin-Smith) |
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| Dressed to impress (David Kinchin-Smith) |
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| 4 of the 100 Fur seals we weighed (David Kinchin-Smith) |
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| A perfect day for a sunbathe (David Kinchin-Smith) |
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