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Message: <blockquote data-quote="birdboybowley" data-source="post: 1255897" data-attributes="member: 60953">Sorry H, seemed to have deleted the dates out of the beginning of the thread - oops! We were there from the 26th September 'til the 27th November. Great time for albatrosses, but they seem to be good up til Jan/Feb least, just differing numbers and a slight change of species. I think Northern and Southern Buller's are easier later, as are Southern Royals and Antipodean. We were lucky with Southern G-Petrel too as it was quite late apparently. The weather was grim at times on the South Island, but it was their spring and is notoriously changeable - especially the west coast! Still, that's half the fun...allegedly!I wouldn't have changed dates really (a bit more sun would have been nice down south..!) but go any later and then the Fiordland Penguins are very difficult, so it's swings and roundabouts really.</blockquote>