Saturday, May 13, 2023

Roof-dwelling

Screenshots of the Peregrine chicks at CalFalcons. The three siblings are now four weeks old, and have been given names. Warning for bloody prey in later screenshots.


Rosa (oldest chick, female, red band) preening her legfeathers while Luna (youngest chick, female, blue band) inspects her sister's toes. Zephyr (middle-hatched chick, male, yellow band) looks around in the foreground.

There's everyone's faces. They're currently pretty easy to tell apart even without seeing the bands because of different stages at feather development.
Luna screaming (for food? for food.) and Zephyr nipping at Rosa's beak. The chicks are now freely wandering on the roof around their nest box.

More food screams by Rosa.
They got food. Rosa is already self-feeding competently.
But they still get feedings, too.
Yoink!
They're a handful.

Also here are two screenshots I took a week ago and didn't post then. The chicks already look a lot more grown up since then:

Lined up youngest to oldest from the left.

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