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Mazais kaimiņu albatrosēns uzmana visus, kuri lido pāri.


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TF izvingrina mazos ,pūkainos spārniņus.


(GT)Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod
Kia ora koutou (hello everyone)
Top Flat chick is 56 days old and weighs 3.45 kg. This is a big drop from the massive 5 kg last week but is still up from the week prior which was 3.3kg. Top Flat chick was last fed by LGL on the 14th of March. LGK was last in on the 13th of March. A reweigh may be necessary later in the week if no further feeding is sighted here.
Top Flat Track chick is 48 days old and weighs 3.05 kg. This is down slightly from last week’s 3.2 kg but both parents have been in regularly here. Weighing at both nests was around 10.45am this morning. BOK arrived at Top Flat Track just over an hour later.
Both chicks are well into post-guard stage life now and have very thick down that keeps them warm and dry in stormy weather. Full tummies keep the chicks warm as well.
A technical note:
Our current webcam, supplied by Cornell Lab of Ornithology in 2019, the Axis P5635-E MkII PTZ, is being replaced by an Axis P5676-LE PTZ cam. This one has an inbuilt night light system so will be more streamlined that the first Axis model that became the Royalcam and is now in transit to Dunedin. We hope to have the new cam installed in a few weeks and the live stream will be off-line while the change is being made. It will be great to have the night viewing back now the days are getting shorter.
(GT)Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod
At 10.14am this morning Top Flat chick has an additional weigh in this morning with the help of the Royal Albatross Centre staff. Top Flat chick is now 4.4 kg. LGK must have fed his chick well over 1 kg of squid or octopus or fish last night.