Very cool Alan

Beautiful. Thank you.

Coincidentally, on Saturday night, the night of the full moon, my husband and I watched the Little Blue Penguins swim onto shore for the evening here in Dunedin, New Zealand. We saw about 146, another 50 or so more were due to arrive, but we left early. After sunset, they gathered in "rafts" in the harbor, then swam like mad toward shore, scrambled onto the sandy beach, then over the rocks, before finally waddling up to their nests. Absolutely enchanting!

Happy New Year to you, too. Thanks again.

It was Friday night, actually.

Wonderful watching them come ashore, waddling home like New Year's revelers who did not know when they had had enough.

And thank you from me, Alan. I just love penguins, and have quite a collection of the inanimate penguins. I have watched them coming ashore at Philip Island, Aus, and Oamaru, NZ, where they risk so much coming ashore with the seals waiting for them.
I shall check back in on the site later on.

One of these days I am going to make a birding trip to the sub-Antarctic Islands of Australia and New Zealand and see lots of Penguins. So far I have only seen two species confirmed in the wild. In NZ I saw a third species but it was out of range for whatever it was and I could not get enough to ID it. I think however it may have been a Fiordland Penguin.

My ornithologist nephew has a wonderful series of photos of a penguin pooping! He waited for quite some time when he realised there was a possibility of it happening! He was leading a tour from a cruise ship from the Patagonia region at the time.

Happy New Year!

Thank you for that webcam, I love Penguins having seen them in S. Africa, Chile and Galapagos. They are totally amazing and this webcam is too.