{"id":4493,"date":"2011-10-19T03:10:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T11:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2011-10-24T05:04:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T13:04:18","slug":"gentoo-nesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/gentoo-nesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentoo nesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111019-DSC_8763.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111019-DSC_8763.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"deadmans\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4494 colorbox-4493\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAli and I went over to Maiviken to check out the Gentoo colony. It was a very hot day I wore a sleeveless shirt and got a little bit of burnt shoulder! The snow has gone soft and snowshoes is the preferred method of travel. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN9202\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4494 colorbox-4493\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGentoos won&#8217;t nest on snow so the areas of open tussock were full of nests. Like humans there were a few very industrious penguins making beautifully constructed nests and a few that couldn&#8217;t really be bothered. Ali told one penguin off for the sorry excuse for a nest! We had lunch next to the colony and watched them work away. Once all the nests are established Ali will randomly mark 40 of them. 75% day which is the benchmark for the science is when 30 of those 40 randomly marked nests have eggs in them. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111019-DSC_8659.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111019-DSC_8659.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20111019-DSC_8659\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4510 colorbox-4493\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere was a very curious skua at the river next to Maiviken hut. He or she tugged at my ring on my finger and my beanie. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9203.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9203.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN9203\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4496 colorbox-4493\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe delicatly crossed a few snow bridges over full meltwater streams on the way over. The snow is melting very fast indeed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9205.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN9205\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4497 colorbox-4493\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSugartop was in full glory looming in the bright blue sky. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali and I went over to Maiviken to check out the Gentoo colony. It was a very hot day I wore a sleeveless shirt and got a little bit of burnt shoulder! The snow has gone soft and snowshoes is the preferred method of travel. Gentoos won&#8217;t nest on snow so the areas of open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4514,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}