Wet buzzards, wobbly osplets, and mantling falconets

A rainy morning at the Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest.

[Warning for some screenshots showing prey, but only slightly and from a distance. The nest has gotten a lot tidier as the chicks have grown, as it usually does at this stage. Also a bit of dried blood on a chick.]

A few closeups for starters.

A pretty sunset

Pocket-sized lesbians

Well, it is almost Pride Month. Featuring Skye and Tumult from my plethora of raptor OCs, and a flag I not-so-coincidentally made to fit them both.

Two osplets!

Second chick has hatched at nest #1 of Satakunnan sääkset.

The new baby finished hatching early this morning. Here the egg shell has cracked open into two halves, but the little one has yet to crawl out from under it. 2-day-old sibling wobbling around in front of it steals the show.

Dad with the chicks, mom standing at the edge of the nest. A bit inconvenient spot the parents picked for that one piece of lichen, but the chicks are still mostly visible. The older sibling who can already hold its head up is demanding breakfast, and the new hatchling is getting acquainted with gravity, having fallen over onto its back (head is next to the still unhatched third egg).

Siblings waiting for a brooding shift change together.

Osplet!

Alma & Ossi's first chick of the season hatched during the night. First sighting was at 2:58am, but too dark to see much more than that some tiny thing is moving in the nest cup. Here are screenshots of the little one in the morning.

First good peek as mom gets up to adjust her position.

So smol.

They grow up so fast!

[warning for visible raptor prey in the screenshots]

Firstly, the estimated hatching day for the first Osprey chick at nest #1 of Satakunnan sääkset is tomorrow! It's been really stormy today, and the parents haven't given us many peeks at the eggs yet.

Alma standing, Ossi incubating the eggs.

Shift change. Ossi left, Alma right. No pip visible on the eggs, but it's hard to tell. There's chirpy noises that sound like a chick talking inside the egg, though.
 

Meanwhile at SWFL Bald Eagles, fledglings E17 and E18 have been away from the nest for a couple of days in a row for the first time (E17 was last seen on Sunday evening, E18 on Monday morning). They're old enough to start leaving on their big eagle adventure as independent juveniles, so it's possible they have. Stay safe out there!

Bigger powder puffs

The Royal Albatross chick has gotten so big since I last posted a screenshot of her!

She also has a name - Tiaki.