They do move in herds, for better or for worse

Big date.

How come you never crowd into the frame like this when I have one of those photograph a dinosaur contracts?

Little behavior details I appreciate that the game includes: Dilophosaurus shaking its frill as a relaxed idle animation, like a bird rousing its feathers.

Full quartet

Screenshots of the now four Red-tailed hawk chicks from the Cornell nestcam. Warning for close views of bloody prey.

All four in a pile this morning. The youngest chick L4 is first one from left, oldest chick L1 first from right. Not sure which of the other two is which.

Three, soon to be four

The fourth chick L4 finally hatched last night at the Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest. While I wait for morning to reach their timezone so I can see the new baby, here's screenshots of the older three babies from the days leading up to the hatching. Warning for closeups of bloody prey.

Mom Big Red and her three little reds, L3 being less than a day old here.

I think that's L3 in the background getting a feeding, L1 and L2 in the foreground being sleepy.

Diplodocus things

Good thing that fence isn't electrified.

Big sippy for big Dippy.

L2's first morning

Pictured above is actually L3's first morning, after the third chick hatched during last night, but the rest of the screenshots are from the day before, of 2-day-old L1 and new sibling L2, before L3 had joined the lineup of bobbleheads. There is currently a pip on the fourth egg, too.

As usual for this nest, warning for closeups of bloody prey.

Final mission let's gooo!

When you nail the first impression...

...and then immediately undo it.

Back from alien abduction with new jewelry

Banding went well at West End, and the eaglets are back in the nest. One of the parents is on the tor in the screenshots, and both were circling over the nest during the banding. Judging by placement of the orange IWS bands (right leg for males, left for females, as I've understood), the two younger eaglets are male, and the oldest is female.

ETA: Videos of the banding: overlook camera view, up-close camera view.

They're on a date

Second hatch at Cornell Hawks

Red-tailed hawk chick L2 has hatched late last night! Here's the first hatchling L1 on its second morning, with still unhatched egg siblings. Warning that the rest of the screenshots show bloody prey in closeups.

In anticipation of banding at West End eagle nest

The West End Bald eagle triplets sitting together. WE1, WE2, WE3 l-r. The youngest eaglet WE3 turned six weeks old yesterday. Banding is planned for either this afternoon (April 24th) or tomorrow morning (by local time at the nest, which is in California)!

WE1 taking a nap.

WE2 (front) and WE3 tracking something.

Looking forward to seeing what's shown of the banding, and finding out any information that can be gathered by measuring the eaglets, such as potentially their genders. My guess for now is that WE1 and WE3 are female and WE2 is male. ETA: got two out of three - WE3 is male.

That's enough teeth already

Brunch with the girls.

The most pathetic excuse for a monorail ever. Look at that poor train traversing a track that's barely longer than it is. But my guests wanted a monorail, and this is the only place I could fit any stations, so here's your fucking monorail, enjoy.

Don't you hate it when someone takes a picture just when you're blinking.

The Isla Pena security mission rex was called Daffodil btw.

Having to make some more big carnivores on a stormy island, doing the Isla Sorna entertainment mission. They only broke one fence each during the storm, and I'd left a big empty space around their enclosures with a perimeter fence, and everyone was in storm shelters anyway. Kind of dreading the security mission on this island, though, since George the absolute madlad wants me to make an Indominus rex here.

Whatever the weather.

Siblings at sunrise

Bald eagle fledglings E20 (closer to camera) and E19 this morning at the Southwest Florida nest.

Wing stretch.

And a hop.

Hatch at Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest!

This season's clutch has started hatching at the Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest, with the first chick, L1, welcomed into the world in the late evening on April 21st. Two of the other eggs are also in the process of hatching now. And speaking of the eggs, this year the mother hawk Big Red laid four instead of the usual three!

Warning that all of the closeup screenshots of the chick also show dead animals clearly. The nest has a full pantry, and the food is kept close to the hungry mouths to feed.

Reluctantly, we have a T. rex

Going through the islands a second time to do all the stuff I skipped by just hopping to the next as soon as it was unlocked. The last time I was on Isla Pena, I'd purposefully made only herbivores, because while those are dangerous, too, they at least don't actively hunt the tourists if they get out, and this island gets frequent, fence-breaking storms. No meatasauruses here, especially no big apex predators like rexes, that would be stupid.

Entertainment mission:

:|

It wasn't so bad, though, Buttercup behaved herself for the time she needed to, and I sold her as soon as the mission was over. Phew.

Security mission:

Oh come on!

Bonus accidentally spoopy aesthetic shot of the Ceratosaurus tranquilized.

Birthday bird

Screenshots from the Big Bear Bald eagle nestcam. Include a few glimpses of prey.

The eaglet Spirit, starting to look like a proper raptor. Spirit turned seven weeks old yesterday.

Coordinated carnivore curling ups

Presidential alert: the girls are napping together! (Above: Ceratosaurus, below: Majungasaurus).

Sleepy sausage.

The answer may not surprise you

My Jurassic World Evolution park finally had its very first guest death!

Guess what dinosaur did it.

Guess.

Triplets lined up for closeups

Lots of beautiful zoomings at the West End Bald eagle nest yesterday. Warning for clear view of prey in some of the screenshots.

WE3, WE1, WE2 from left/front to right/back. Just lying around waiting for fish deliveries. WE1 is six weeks old on this day, WE2 two days younger, and WE3 two days younger than that.

Spared no Ranger Teams

Fixing that souvenir store can probably wait until after the storm, you don't have to be this dedicated!

Some behaviors for our guests to witness

Driving the ranger jeep in the Spinosaurus enclosure, resupplying feeders, and decide to take a photo of the Spino turning around to face me nearby...

O_O

Meanwhile in the Stegosaurus enclosure. No, that's for the other end, not butt scritches!
 

Varying catches of the day

More screenshots from the West End Bald eagle nestcam I've been following. Above are five-week-old chicks WE1, WE2, and WE3 today, in order of oldest to youngest left to right, looking around after a meal. Or, WE1 and WE3 are looking around, WE2 is taking a nap sitting up. But back to yesterday before more of today. Screenshots show prey, but not close up.

Housing a Spino

Oh, the indignity.

I love that she catches the fishes in the fish feeder by holding her jaws in the water and snapping when a fish swims between them.

But what could go wrong?

Nothing much did immediately. The twister broke her fence and she escaped, but I'd put her enclosure far away from where I'd built stuff so far, so no people were in danger. She did kill one of the Stegos I hadn't captured yet before I caught her, though. Sad for the Stego, but hunting and being hunted is how the dinos had been living on the island before we showed up again, so it's business as usual for them and still not a disaster. But, it also made them one short in their minimum social group and thus very upset. I captured the Stegos and topped up their group with one from the Stegos I already had, which could afford to lose a herdmate, but it took a while to get them to calm down and time everyone's transport so there were enough Stegos in the enclosure at the same time and they stopped trying to break out. They did break out once, and ran into the built area, and so it was the herbivores who got to finally rampage among the tourists. :D Somehow no one got trampled.

This seems safe.

Land of eternal darkness

Welcome to Isla Pena.

Apart from the scary start of the first storm that hit involving this twister, though, I think I like this island. I'm sure how I've used up the building space could be improved on, but having too much space can also be kind of overwhelming, so I enjoyed this challenge.

I also only have herbivores on this island, so these contracts are free money. Not that I've had any of my veggiesaurs break out of their enclosures, either. I was promised running and screaming?

Glad the dinos are happy, though.