Beginning to wrap things up?

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #1 from the past half a week. Includes views of fish prey.

Ulpukka watching for fish deliveries on a Thursday afternoon. She's been an only child lately, with Lumme seeming to have left on her migration that morning.

Status as mixpacking questionable

A pack of Deinonychus and retrosaur Deinonychus.

Mods:
Feathered Deinonychus
Basegame Velociraptor redesign
JP Trespasser Velociraptor cosmetics

Fish rumble!

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #1. Includes views of fish prey, and fighting between osplets.

Lumme and Ulpukka had a proper fight over a fish today. Both seem okay afterwards, here are some action shots.

Ulpukka flies to the nest with a fish. She got it from Eura earlier and kept Lumme from landing in the nest with them, and the two chicks have been exchanging screams for a while at this point. I guess Lumme decided enough's enough.

Incoming!

Right from under your beak

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #1. Includes views of fish prey.

Politics of keeping a fish

Screenshots from yesterday afternoon at Sääksilive Osprey nest #1. Screenshots include views of fish prey, I'm not counting the behavior shown between the fledglings as fighting.

Fish delivery.

Fish delivery entourage.

Residents, visitors, and inbetween

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Includes some fighting between osplets.

Lumme and Utu at nest #1 yesterday. Utu waited for a long time for Lumme to finish eating the fish she'd claimed, and finally got it to himself when she was done.

Moments of coexistence

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

Morning fish delivery claimed.

By Ulpukka, who does indeed seem to be staying.

Fishy tension

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #1. Screenshots include views of fish prey, and fighting between osplets.

Good morning! The visiting fledgling (VF) at nest #1 seems to have spent the night nearby, and is still around. What trouble will she cause today? (Going by her temperament and size, I'm pretty sure VF is a female, so I might as well refer to her accordingly.)

Well, here we go. Eura brings a fish to the nest, which Utu speeds over to claim, and loudly announce to have claimed.

Fledgling drama

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #1. Screenshots include views of fish prey, and fighting between osplets.

Continuing from the previous post, a fledgling from a different nest turned up today, and has been getting into conflict with the resident two chicks Lumme and Utu. The visiting fledgling (VF) scored a fish delivery, and spent a long time eating it at the nest.

After watching from the balcony branch for a while, Lumme flies to the nest.

VF does not approve.

An unexpected addition

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

Morning preens by Utu and Lumme at nest #1 yesterday.

Photogenic perching

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

Lumme at nest #1 yesterday morning.

Much ado about sticks

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests.

At nest #1, Lumme flies home from her sleeping tree, and brings a stick with her.

Visits and wingers in the rain

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

Lumme and Utu at nest #1 yesterday, each eating their own fish on a rainy evening.

The weather seemed to give them the zoomies, as there was a lot of wingercizing by the already fledged chicks on the nest. It was quite windy, too, and I guess getting the wind under their wings made rising in the air really easy.

Pocket-sized Transgender Pride flag

Pieces of plastic cut from a bag of chocolates. The colours pink and light blue as stripes looked familiar, and so I decided it's time to make another pocket-sized Pride flag.

I cut four thin pieces from the borders of the colours, and glued them together with a piece of white printer paper inbetween. The plastic is a little translucent, so I used a minimal amount of glue on the edges. I added a white stripe in the middle on each side from a sticker sheet that had a lot of blank space around the images, and I'd left the pink stripes a little wider than the blue so the sticker goes over them a little, and sticks them to the paper more firmly.

Glued it to a pole, and it's a tiny Transgender Pride flag! Holographic star stickers for a little extra decoration. The pole is a lollipop stick, and has a bit of white washi tape at one end because I'd apparently bitten a hole in it?

I had a little photoshoot with the finished
flag featuring my raptors who are trans.

🏳️‍⚧️ 🐦 🏳️‍⚧️

Journeys on wing and foot

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

Nuppu feeding N2/USU at nest #4 yesterday. N2 has since left the nest - not the way we hoped for, but there could have been worse ways, too. N2 was perched on a branch next to the nest last night, when he suddenly stumbled and fell. He survived the fall, and didn't seem significantly more injured when he was located on the ground this morning, but as he can't fly and would not have made it back to the nest on his own, he was retrieved and is currently in human care.

A show of wings

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

N2/USU at nest #4 at sunset.

Wing stretches this morning.

Nestlings, fledglings, and company

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

A Red admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) visits N2/USU at nest #4.

Steps at independence where possible

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

Utu (left/back) and Lumme surveying the misty swamp yesterday morning. Both have gone on little flying trips since their fledging (Lumme, Utu), so here are some takeoffs and landings.

Verkko

Utu returns, too

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #1.

Lumme alone for a while after little brother left on his first flight.

Utu fledges!

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #1.

Not long after his sister returned to the nest, Utu takes off on his first flight. First some warm-up wingers...

And liftoff!

Lumme tracking Utu's flight.

Utu flying in the distance, right at the top of the screen in the middle. Congratulations, and stay safe out there! Like Lumme on the day of her fledging, Utu is 7 weeks old today.

Lumme returns to nest after fledging

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nest #1.

Both chicks are home again! (Utu left/front, Lumme right) Lumme flew back this morning after having spent two nights away, on her first trip to the world outside the nest.

High hovers by Utu just before. Lumme could be heard calling from somewhere nearby.

Flights, flight plans, flight plan delays

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests.

At nest #1, the older chick Lumme fledged yesterday at 7 weeks old to the day. Here she is warming up her wings just before while little brother Utu watches.