We do at least two rounds in our colonies every week to check for penguins in trouble - and on this day we found one. It's Janet's mate who was hanging out on the beach during the day. If you look closely you see that he is brown in colour rather than blue: he had not moulted yet. We picked him up and he was less than 5kg - when he should have been 7+kg pre-moult or in fact already moulted. We tested his blood and he had Avian Malaria - so it was loads of food as well as medication for him. There is no doubt that he would not have survived without rehab.

We had to bring Ciara into rehab for a wee while during her moult and after her release spotted her with her mate near their nest site hanging out during the day. So they found each other again and appear no worse for wear from the temporary separation.

It's such a pleasure to see three adult yellow-eyed penguins running round on the beach doing their thing after such a hard season when we had to rehabilitated over a hundred penguins. They look good and happy!

Even through the moult do the yellow-eyed penguins court and run around after each other - at times. No idea who these two are but they were seen wandering around on the landing near the beach - the scruffiness of one did not seem to put off the moulted - and thus gorgeous other!