Screenshots from the Cornell Red-tailed hawk nestcam. The four chicks are 11, 9, 8, and 4 days old, respectively. Warning for close views of bloody prey.
Breakfast. The youngest chick L4 on the left is in good position for this meal and gets plenty to eat.
A snugglepile of baby buzzards. L4 in the middle at the front, the older sibling on the right might be L1? I definitely can't tell L2 and L3 apart even when they're all seen clearly, since having only a day's age difference they're so close in size, too. But the main thing is all four are eating, growing, and thriving.
All four awake.
And time for a feeding. L4 gets pushed around from one edge of the chick pile to the other a lot, trying to find a spot amidst the bigger siblings, but it's more the chicks being clumsy than deliberate.
One of the big chicks swallows a whole bird leg!
L4 had trouble reaching to where the food was in this feeding, being stuck behind one of the big siblings, but it did get some good bites.
Mombrella.
Another feeding, this time L4 is in the front row again.
And another pile. L1 in the middle, L4 bottom right.
Closeups of L1. Very cute, if messy little bird.
And one more feeding. L4 has once again secured a good spot. :)
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