An excellent couple of days on Stewart Island for Brent and his group. Yesterday they spent the afternoon on Ulva Island a cleaned up, with lots of good birds showing well – yellowhead, South Island saddleback, red-crowned parakeet, etc. Today was an excellent Stewart Island pelagic, with five albatross species and three penguin species, plus excellent views of mottled petrel!
Read more here on the blogs…
https://b1rder.blogspot.com/2019/03/day-seventeen-stewart-island.html
https://b1rder.blogspot.com/2019/03/day-eighteen-petrels-and-penguins.html

A white-capped albatross gets a little confused after landing on the deck of the boat!