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).
N1, N2, N3 l-r with mom Nuppu.
N2 on the left and N1 in the middle now.
Hot day, panting to stay cool while mombrella is away. N2, N1, N3 l-r.
Later but still in the same order.
N1 looked N3 wrong, I suppose, and gets a bonk for that.
Didn't land very well, but also got no retaliation. That is, until N3 tried again, and got a pecking for that, and N2, too, got one bonk from N1, for good measure. Sibling rivalry has not been very intense, and they all get fed well, but raptor chicks will be raptor chicks.
Eve feeding E1 and E2 at nest #1. The siblings are pretty easy to tell apart right now, with E1 well into plumage change, and E2 still having mostly natal down. They have two days of age difference.
Napping with the inviable egg. I wonder how long it'll stay in the nest. The egg at nest #3 that started hatching but didn't finish got eaten after a couple of days (can't afford to waste nutrients in nature), but that one was already broken. With the shell intact it might still be there by the time these two fledge.
And at nest #3, Taika and the chick that did hatch, T2. The little one is growing and getting stronger, too. T2 is a week and two days old, having hatched between the nest #1 chicks.
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And finally, a pretty sunset shot of Eve at nest #1 brooding E1 and E2 for the night.
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