Relatively secure

Best photo my rangers have taken of a T. rex so far. Sleepy Anemone.

Peaceful eating turns

Screenshots from this morning at nest#4 of Sääksilive Osprey nests. Warning for views of fish prey, but no sibling rivalry this time.

Dad Niilo perching at the front after bringing a very early breakfast fish to the nest. Mom Nuppu feeding N1(back/right) and N2, who are eating side by side without squabbling.

Eating turns

Screenshots from nest#4 of Sääksilive Osprey nests. The two chicks are growing, and figuring out how to share the nest while they do. Warning for views of fish prey, and sibling rivalry.

Both chicks have already eaten earlier in the day, and the younger, too, has a noticeable crop. But more would fit.

Sky fledges!

The last one of the three eaglets I've been watching since they were hatchlings at West End of Catalina Island Bald eagle nest has fledged! Sky the middle-hatched chick took his time after his older sister and younger brother had already shown flying can be done a while ago, but it was a very deliberate fledge with a safe return to nest soon after.

I don't have a screenshot of the flight itself, but I do have these of Sky head-bobbing (triangulating) right before. A tell-tale sign that a chick is about to test its wings to get to whatever spot it's figuring out the distance to.

Two fledglings on Turtle Rock.

Sky (left) and little brother Ahote back at the nest with a bird prey. Older sister Kana'kini perching in the background.

So good to see Sky finally trust his wings to carry him and join his siblings as a fledgling. All three will now practice their flying by zipping and soaring between rock peaks before they eventually make the journey to the mainland.

Securing

A little something I'm working on at one end of an Isla Tacaño challenge mode park. An area separate from the rest of the park, accessible to guests via monorail, and housing carnivores I consider to need some extra security measures. The plan was Deinonychus and Velociraptor, but the dig team brought so many T. rex samples while digging for something else, that I changed that to T. rex and Velociraptor, still fitting the description of needing more security. Though it may end up being T. rex and Deinonychus, since I haven't gotten around to installing any mods, and frankly the Deinos just are more fun to look at than the basegame Velos.

But this should work, right? I'm playing on medium difficulty, and we've had storms that cause structure damage, but only to buildings, and there have been no twisters at all even though I've been playing for long enough that this is the last area I still hadn't built in. The extra security measures are needed because these particular dinos seem to be easily upset by storms, though, and may want to break out. But that's what the perimeter fence is for.

First storm alert after I'd incubated the rex and gotten her settled in - here we go:

L4 fledges!

The babiest of the baby buzzards at Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest has finally flown out of the nest for the first time! I took a bunch of screenshots of L4 on the night before and the morning of the fledge.

And though I don't have screenshots, looks like both Peregrine chicks I've been checking in on at Cal Falcons have also already fledged recently!

Later in the post are also screenshots of the Osprey chicks at Sääksilive nest#4, still small and a long way from fledging. (warning for a few visible fish preys in those, as well as a bout of sibling rivalry)

L4 on the power box at the end of the nest platform in the evening. Not much of the chick is visible here, but I find the lens flares pretty.

A room

Fledglings and not quite fledglings

Screenshots of the Cornell Red-tailed hawks and also West End of Catalina Island Bald eagles. Both nests still have one chick yet to fledge. Warning for occasional views of prey, and of a bug (wasp), as well as blood on the chicks' feet (from prey, they're fine).

The youngest of the Red-tailed hawks, and their only remaining nestling, L4.

With already fledged older sibling L3 for company.

Birthday Masu

16 years since we first met!

L3 fledges!

One more chick at the Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest has graduated from nestling to fledgling today. Screenshots of that, and also a lot of them from the two days of branching leading up to L3's fledge. No clear views of prey in the screenshots this time.

One of the older two chicks, on a morning visit to the platform next to the nest.

And L3 and L4 at the nest, with all three in view of the fixed camera.

Later the same morning, L3 has a beautiful sunrise photoshoot on the nest platform railing. Little sibling L4 in the nest.

Messy fish fights

Screenshots from nest#4 of Sääksilive Osprey nests. Warning for clear views of bloodied fish prey. No views of sibling rivalry despite the post title, though I have seen some of that on the stream, and it's normal osplet behavior.

Dad Niilo (front) and mom Nuppu, and their osplets N1 (right) and N2. N1 is a week old here, and N2 two days old.

N1 has a wing around N2.

Kana'kini fledges!

The fledges just keep on coming! Now it's West End's oldest eaglet's turn. Later in the post also screenshots of the already established fledglings at Big Bear Bald eagle nest and Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest +not yet fledglings at Cal Falcons. Some of the Redtail nest screenshots show prey, the others should not this time.

Kana'kini doing her morning wing workout on the edge of the rock, little brothers Sky and Ahote loafing in the nest.

Another fledge, and more

Recent screenshots from several raptor nestcams. Warning for occasional views of prey, mostly fish in the Osprey nest ones.

Peregrine chicks Lindsay (older sister with yellow leg band, perching on the light) and Grinnell Jr. (younger brother with blue leg band, standing on the floor) at Cal Falcons are five weeks old. As the text on the screenshot says, fledge watch for these two starts next week! Not quite there yet, but their plumages are finally starting to be more big birb feather than baby fluff.

A fledge and a hatch

Screenshots from two of the raptor nestcams I follow. Warning for occasional views of prey.

One of the chicks at the Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest fledged this morning! Which one it was isn't entirely clear - either L1 or L2 - but here's the soon-to-be-fledgling just before the fledge, with youngest chick L4 on the right.

Hattaraa

New perches and a hunt

Screenshots from two raptor nestcams. Warning for occasional views of dead prey, also a bug (moth).

At the Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest, the oldest chick, L1, has made it to on top of the railing along the platform the nest is on, and gave viewers a lot of lovely closeups both yesterday and today.

Before more of those, a few screenshots of the two Peregrine chicks at Cal Falcons. The oldest of this clutch, Lindsay, has also found a new spot, on top of one of the lights along the edge of the roof their nest is on.

Ranibow Sprimkle

That's what I'm calling this shirt. As inspired by a literary classic.

Anyway, I made my Skye sim a new shirt, and thought I'd share.

For both AF and TF, androgynous and not. It's a recolor/retexture of loose T-shirt by Gothplague, with the help of the logo-less white recolor made by CrabOfDoom.

Ahote returns to the nest

There are three eaglets in the West End nest again! Ahote flew back this morning, after his accidental fledge and several days spent on the Turtle Rock peak, not far from the nest, but still the farthest away from home he'd ever been.

You're early

The sun is still setting. 🌙

Levels of fluffy

Screenshots from three raptor nestcams I follow, starting with Cornell Red-tailed hawks.
Warning for occasional views of prey.

L2 (front) and L1 at the hidey hole (spot at the end of the platform where the fixed camera can't see, as it's behind it). Also back of L3's head in frame. I think I've got it correct who's who, but I could be wrong. In any case: the three older chicks, in some order or another.

Birbsim dressup

More screenshots of my Jurassic Park/World raptor AU characters turned into sims.

Perhaps these floating leaves will look better than covering the water surface with waterlilies...

Hmm, yes. I think it works!

Smeared lines

Also there's definitely a skull in the second photo.

Osplet hatch!

Hatching has started at nest #4 of Sääksilive Osprey nests, with the first chick hatching this morning.

Mom Nuppu brooding/incubating, dad Niilo has just brought a new stick (the placement of which Nuppu didn't seem to approve of). A little bit of both chick and one of the two still unhatched eggs peeking out from under Nuppu.

Life in and around nest

Raptor nestcam screenshots. Warning for occasional views of prey.

The two Peregrine falcon chicks at Cal Falcons are growing their juvenile plumages and starting to explore the roof their nest is on. The chicks now have names, though some of these screenshots are from before the naming contest had resolved. The older chick, a female with a yellow leg band, is Lindsay, and the younger chick, a male with a blue leg band, is Grinnell Jr.

Ahote fledges!

The first of the Bald eaglets at West End of Catalina Island has left the nest! And it's the youngest of the clutch!

Ahote on the left with his older siblings Kana'kini (middle) and Sky not long before the fledge. The older two are 12 weeks old, Ahote turns 12 weeks tomorrow.

Just little JWE things

Oh to be a Baryonyx eating fish in a puddle in the rain with your friend.

A proper greeting for the newcomer in the Ceratosaurus enclosure.

"Oh, were you having a conversation? Don't mind me just walking right through your group." Alternatively, it looks like the Paras being very curious about and inspecting the Diplodocus together.

I'm getting better at the terrain tools, but this path is still a disgrace. At least that fence isn't electrified or have a carnivore on the other side (it's ceratopsians, though, which also doesn't sound very safe to fall onto).

Old Trike comforting a newer addition to the herd, I like to think. The scary, loud helicopter is only there for a moment and will soon go away, she's seen this enough times to know.

Return to nest

Eaglet Spirit at the Big Bear Bald eagle nest fledged yesterday morning, and has now returned safely in the afternoon. (Warning for visible fish prey, and also a bug later in the post.)

Dad Shadow brings a fish to the nest.

No one's present to claim the delivery, so he starts eating. Soon from a distance comes the sound of some very demanding squees. :)