Things change so quickly

Nuppu and her chicks Una (middle) and Jouko three days ago at nest#4 of Sääksilive Osprey nests. Dramatic turns of events at this nest have been continuing, and it's starting to look like the latest twist is a sad one for one of the siblings.

Jouko at the edge of the nest the next day in what might be my last screenshot of him. He fledged later that day, to escape what seems to have been a large raptor approaching the nest, and hasn't been seen since. After a search for him on location yesterday, the news as I recall is that neither the osplet himself nor signs of an osplet having been caught by a predator were found in the surrounding area, but that he hasn't returned to the nest by now means something has likely happened to him, perhaps farther away, as an exhausted and lost new fledgling is not the most equipped to avoid predators. If he is fine after all and hanging out somewhere away from the nest, accepting parents' fish deliveries to his new address, I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but it is looking pretty likely by now that Nuppu and Niilo only have one chick left.

He was such a cute and tenacious little osplet, and I'm sad his journey may have ended here after already coming so far. But so it sometimes goes in nature, not every new life makes it to adulthood.

But life continues, at this nest, too. Una has returned to the nest, and here receives a fishtail from Nuppu.

A morning visit by Una.

More Una sightings, with and without mom for company.