Rain and renovations

 Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Include views of fish prey.

Taika moving sticks at nest #3 yesterday. Little T2 watches closely.

Like this, mom?

Photo moments

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Include views of fish prey.

Eve brooding E1 and E2 in the early morning at nest #1.

Grey, pink, floof

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Include views of fish prey.

At nest #1, both chicks are now well into leaving behind their hatchling plumage. E1 (right) is two weeks old today.

Stretches and feather growth stages

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Include views of fish prey.

Taika preening at nest #3, 12-day-old T2 paying close attention.

Left alone for a moment, T2 climbs out of the nest cup.

Portraits, plumages

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Include views of fish prey

N2 doing flapping exercises at nest #4. Those wooly mittens are starting to resemble wings! N2 is also three weeks old today (or yesterday now, since I posted this past midnight).

Plenty of fish for all

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Include views of fish prey, natch.

Eve feeding E1 (left) and E2 at nest #1. E1 is starting to change into second down plumage, and is a little darker and greyer already. E2 is a week old today, E1 two days older than that.

Taika and T2 at nest #3. The little one turned a week old yesterday.

Peeking, observing

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Include views of fish prey.

Taika and T2 looking around together at nest #3.

Duality of deinonychosaur

Jurassic World Evolution screenshots for a change. Some mixpacking with Troodon and Tsaagan.

Trio, duo, solo

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Include views of fish prey, as well as a broken egg.

At nest #4, Nuppu (left) and Nemo with their 2-week-old chicks (N3, N1, N2 l-r). N3 turned two weeks yesterday.

At nest #1, Eve with her considerably younger brood. E1 (closer to camera) is 6 days old, E2 4 days. The third egg seems to have been inviable, and hasn't started hatching. But two chicks is good, too.

At nest #3, Taika feeding T2, who is going to be an only child. This nest has had bad luck with hatches this season, and while the third egg started hatching, it never finished. T2 is 5 days old today.

One more osplet small

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Include views of fish prey.

Two days ago at nest #1, Eve feeding E1 while E2 finishes scooching out of its egg.

Osplets big and small

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Include views of fish prey.

At nest #3, T2 bites Taika's talons. :)

Preens and a new successful hatch

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests.

Eve and little E1 at nest #1. The osplet is a day old. Or half a day in this screenshot, having hatched in the afternoon.

I have raised a strawberry!

Or grown, whatever, but I sure have been doting on this potted strawberry plant like a baby.
 

Hatching is the hardest part

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Include views of fish prey.

The first chick at nest #1 has successfully hatched!

Röpeloiste

Some food successes

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #4. Contain views of fish prey.

Mom Nuppu feeding the chicks, which are lined up in age order. All three ate well at this meal. Also N1 and N2's second plumages are coming in quickly, now both have fully dark back of the head.

Snacks and stacks

Feeding screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #4. Contain fish prey.

N3, N1, and N2 from the front. They are 6, 9, and 8 days old, respectively.

N2 facing the wrong way. The back of N1's head is getting dark, with change into second down plumage.

Nuppu feeding the youngest.

Stacked chicks.

N3 is a little stuck behind bigger siblings again.

But manages to score some bites.

Where could it be?

Good luck with the search.

New birds on the block

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Two contain a glimpse of fish prey.

Nest #2 has been getting some traffic. Though there are no eggs or chicks, it's been visited by adult Ospreys, two of which might be a pair. Here's one of them, with SKT as her yellow band ID. Her gentleman companion of as of yet uncertain marital status has the yellow band ID TAR. They were banded as nestlings in 2020 and 2019, respectively, so both are quite young. Perhaps they'll move in next season?

Another visitor at nest #2: a male Cuckoo spends a moment calling.

And feeding shots from nest #4. N2, N3, N1 from left to right. 5, 3, and 6 days old, respectively.

Bundling the babies.

Fish strikes back!

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #4. As the title already implies, post contains views of fish prey.

Nuppu and her triplets. I think that's N3 looking up.

Hat tricks, sunset mist, and meal moments

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests, warning for views of dead fish again. The third chick hatched today at nest #4!

First two pretty snapshots from last night at nest #3, with the resident female Taika incubating her eggs as mist engulfs the swamp around the nest tree at sunset. It's been another hot day.

Then to nest #4, where the chicks' dad Nemo finally makes an appearance in a screenshot, though he has been keeping the nest well supplied with fish. Nemo is on the left, mom Nuppu feeding the chicks. Nuppu has a metal band (🎶🎸) on her right leg, Nemo is not banded.

Double event

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #4. The second chick hatched yesterday evening. Warning for bloody and headless fish.

Brunch for both.