Monthly Archives: January 2014

Hatching is exhausting!

One of the female parents at this nest used to nest with a male in my neighborhood.  He did not return in 2007-2008 and she relocated to the golf course, where she met her current mate.  Both birds have been … Continue reading

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Our first chicks

One of the rewards for the 3 or so hours a day I generally devote to the albatrosses is that I know the approximate day an egg will hatch.  It usually takes a chick 3 or 4 days of breaking … Continue reading

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An albatross biography, KP505

This is KP505 sitting with Lanea*, the chick he raised with his mate last year.  Lanea had decided that a tree stump next door was a much better spot to rest in than the nest her parents had built and … Continue reading

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