A trio of raptor trio goings-on

Some more screenshots from the nestcams I've been watching. 'Tis the season for a lot of them to have things happening, after all.

First a bit of an update on The Trio - Starr, Valor I, and Valor II, the three Bald Eagles nesting together. A storm having destroyed their nest after the end of the previous nesting season, the trio have built a new nest nearby. This is the closest closeup available, but luckily the nest is still in the camera's sight. This year they're raising a clutch of three eaglets! The chicks are already big and starting to be ready to fledge.

This nest has been difficult for me to keep up with since the stream doesn't have a backlog, but they're still interesting to follow even in less detail and through other watchers' reports.

Then a few shots of the Cornell Red-tailed hawks, starting with this adorable closeup of the youngest chick, K-3. Starting to change eye colour from baby blue-grey to light brown.

Biiig wing stretch!

Tracking something.

And some feeding screenshots of the osplet trio at Satakunnan sääkset nest #1. They're pretty easy to tell apart at least right now - the middle sibling A2 is a lot darker than the other two, and there's a considerable size difference between the firstborn A1 and the youngest A3. The eggs at nest #3 should also start hatching soon.

Mom and A3.

Here's A1... self-feeding? Lol, probably not just yet. I think the fish Alma was moving managed to hit A1, and the chick bonked back. Good job, little one, you sure showed it who's boss.

A1 is quite the spitfire among the siblings, too, and has started enforcing a pecking order in the clutch. Sibling rivalry is normal behavior, and so long as there's enough food for everyone, everyone will get to eat, but this instinct ensures that in seasons when food is scarce, at least one chick still has a chance. Ossi has been an excellent fisher, and Alma very patient about distributing the food so that every little beak gets its fill, so these chicks are hardly going hungry. It's still instinctual for them to squabble at least a bit, and it's good survival skill practice, not to mention an aggressive chick is likely to grow into a good raptor parent eventually, ready to fiercely defend its own young.

Little A3 getting fed, flanked by sleepy older siblings.

Lined up in order of age. :)

Dad feeding for a change, while mom takes a break from brooding and grooms her plumage (she's preening her back feathers here if you're wondering where her head is). A2 is eating, the other two asleep.

A1 wakes up, and notices there's food and that it's going somewhere else than their beak.

Bonk!

Nap time is truce time.