Some ridiculous-looking feathered dinosaurs

The legends are true, they exist. [Warning for raptor prey visible in screenshots]

For the somewhat less ridiculous end of the spectrum, the Cornell Redtail chicks. They're starting to have their juvenile plumage grown in, even little K-3, who is in the foreground in the above screenshot. They still have those fluffy white pants under their smooth big bird feathers, though.

Synchronized tracking headtilt.

Meanwhile the nest #1 Satakunta osplets have their "plucked Velociraptor" phase in full swing.

Double osplet!

Osprey nest #3 at Satakunnan sääkset has finally had a hatch - two of them, in fact! There has been discussion and debate for a while now among viewers about whether any of Nuppu and Ahti's eggs would hatch, as they had a long period of exposure to cold during the incubation (due to something scaring Nuppu away from the nest, I believe), and now that they did start hatching, it's a double event. In four days we could be seeing a baby every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes.

[warning for some headless fishes as is standard for osprey nests]

Our young mother Nuppu with her firstborn, N1. What is this squirmy, tiny thing coming out of the smooth rocks she pooped a month ago and instinct has told her to sit on??

Sibling piles

Cuddles at the Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest.

K-1 stretches out their wings, and K-3 gets a cozy wing blanket.

And more from Satakunta Osprey nest #1, where the chicks are still too small to arrange themselves any other way than in a pile. Warning for some headless fishes in the nest if that's something you'd like to avoid seeing.

Little A3 awake and looking around when mom got up and left the nest for a moment early in the morning.

A trio of raptor trio goings-on

Some more screenshots from the nestcams I've been watching. 'Tis the season for a lot of them to have things happening, after all.

First a bit of an update on The Trio - Starr, Valor I, and Valor II, the three Bald Eagles nesting together. A storm having destroyed their nest after the end of the previous nesting season, the trio have built a new nest nearby. This is the closest closeup available, but luckily the nest is still in the camera's sight. This year they're raising a clutch of three eaglets! The chicks are already big and starting to be ready to fledge.

This nest has been difficult for me to keep up with since the stream doesn't have a backlog, but they're still interesting to follow even in less detail and through other watchers' reports.

Then a few shots of the Cornell Red-tailed hawks, starting with this adorable closeup of the youngest chick, K-3. Starting to change eye colour from baby blue-grey to light brown.

The rowans are blooming!

Best smell best smell

 

Okay, that's all.

Baby buzzards self-feeding

The Cornell Red-tailed hawk chicks are learning to handle prey items and eat on their own.

[Warning that most of the screenshots will show prey, including ones where it's not the focus]

First a bit of allopreening from K-2 to youngest chick K-3.

And toe nibbles for big sibling K-1.

Three osplets!

Alma & Ossi's third chick hatched during the night, so here's a peek at the full clutch during a feeding:

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