Last visit to Te Rae o Atiu delivered a surprise of a chick in burrow 17 that I had written off as an abandoned egg as the last 4 visits I hadn’t seen a bird on the egg.
That brings our total for the season to 37 chicks. The heaviest is now 600g while the youngest is just 96g.
When I took over monitoring duties from Lindsay in 2017 he told me to expect the...
