Scale jewellery and a tandem feeding

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

At nest #4, Nuppu feeding N2 (front) and N3. N1 letting little brothers have the meal to themselves for now, though she eventually elbowed her way between them.

Nuppu brings a fish, N3 grabs and mantles it! He did have to share, but good instincts. N3 is five weeks old on this day.

N1 standing majestically again, N2 and N3 loafing, also majestically.

A triple loaf. (N1, N2, N3 l-r)

Tracking.

Playing with a stick.

Another fish from mom!

She's still feeding the chicks from that fish when Nemo arrives with one of his own. N2 in the foreground is in the middle of swallowing fish gut spaghetti.

Both fish deliveries also had some intruders to yell at before the feeding could begin. Check out N1's beak decoration.

Nemo feeds N2, Nuppu feeds N3 and N1.

N3, N2, N1. Evening looking-arounds.

N1 stretches a wing and gives the bros a blanket for a moment.

Sleepy morning pile.

N1 up.

N3.

N3 and N2 showing their faces, N1 preening.

Incoming fish!

All neatly lined up for feeding.

 

Eve and her chicks at nest #1. E2 up at the moment.

There's E1, too.

A feeding. E1 left.

E1, E2.

E1 up.

Eve standing guard over her little ones.

Morning stretches, E1 right. Both Nuppu and Eve spent the night off their nests, as the chicks don't need overnight brooding anymore under most circumstances.

E1, E2.

At nest #3, Taika and T2, who currently has a fish scale beak decoration, too. Very trendy.

One on the (huge!) crop as well.

And it could be even huger.

Overnight brooding shimmies. T2's feathers have been growing, but aren't quite as far along as the other clutches', and no siblings to huddle with, so extra warms are still appreciated.

Removing an inconvenient stick from the nest cup first.

There we go.

Sleepy morning birbs.

Ordering breakfast. We need to make the baby's crop huge today, too!

Having a good look at something.