A few closeups of the almost 4-week-old Big Bear Bald eagle chick from yesterday. The snow from the night before quickly melted away during the day, and the little one spent more time next to rather than under its parents. Last screenshot shows a fish prey, the others don't.
Recent screenshots from the two Californian Bald eagle nests I've been watching this season, Big Bear and West End nests, both dealing with some inclement weather. Warning for closeups of prey at both, and mild sibling rivalry at the West End one.
It's how I have fun.
Screenshots from the West End Bald eagle nest, and later in the post the other two nests I've been keeping an eye on. Warning for views of prey, though not in focus.
I have some new dinos. As a lovely surprise (I bought them on ebay and don't know the seller personally), they arrived not only securely packaged but giftwrapped!
The younger of the two eaglets at the Southwest Florida Bald eagle nest flew out of the nest tree for the first time yesterday. And returned safely right after, with a new record for shortest first flight at this nest. Here are some screenshots I took of both the fledging and things the eaglets got up to before and after on the same day.
Screenshots from the SWFL Bald eagle nest (and West End nest later in the post). These are from two days ago, and mostly feature the younger eaglet E20, but the most recent news is that his older sister E19 has fledged! I don't have pictures, as the cameras were down at the time, and still are at the moment, but here's video of the fledge filmed on location by Marie Lapointe-Chism and posted to Youtube by Lady Hawk with her permission. E19 has since safely returned to the nest.
(Jurassic Park movie and Jurassic Park: The Game spoilers)
A new surprise contender enters the list of candidates for what dinosaur's eggs do Dr. Grant, Lex, and Tim find in Jurassic Park. Velociraptor? Gallimimus? There are arguments for both. But we don't see exactly how far from the tree they slept in they are when they stumble upon the nest, or how many fences they may have crossed along the way, i.e. what paddock they're in. Topps' comic adaptation of the movie takes a lot less ambiguous approach (my copy is in Finnish, but the dialogue is not much different from the movie's, and you can find an English version at the JP wiki):
Eaglets E19 and E20 at the SWFL Bald eagle nest both reached a new branch yesterday.
Warning that the post includes views of prey in the nests.
A few more raptorsim screenshots (only a few, so not a long post this time). Previous posts can be found in the tag I've now made for them.
The raptorlets have found a new part of the house to utilize, or in other words, a new forbidden balcony: the roof directly above the allowed balcony. Can't be very forbidden since there's a ladder leading up there, but maybe it was put there for maintenance and then just never removed.
I received my postcard set from Creative Beast Studio's Beasts of the Mesozoic Tyrannosaur line kickstarter today!
