Friday 23 January 2009

Ever seen one of these?


...I mean the one on the foreground. We hadn't, though I'd never seen a penguin in the wild either until this visit to Otway Sound in Patagonia. The interloper visiting the penguins' burrows, presumably in search of eggs, is allegedly a 'quique' or 'lesser grison' (galictis cuja), listed on one website as a type of ferret. Nearby penguins were uneasy and behaving as though they could sense it, though we didn't see a face-to-face meeting while we were there. We were already amazed to see the Magellan penguins, only afterwards did we realise just how lucky we'd been to catch sight of this animal also.

2 comments:

David Chapman said...

Chris,

I'm glad you are posting again, and some superb photos.

David

chris said...

Thanks for the encouragement David!
Chris