Raptor logi(sti)c(s) thoughts

Today's Indoraptor thought concerns the logistics of his escape and the space it takes place in. How did he get from point A (the display cage in the auction room) to point B (grabbing the two mercenaries who were with Mills during exposition about Maisie)?

My first thought, because it's the route most explicitly featured on screen, was that what if in addition to accidentally getting the elevator doors to open, he managed to get the elevator to move, too.

"Didn't I just tell you to hold the door? Rude."

A day at a time at a nest

Some of last night and today at nest #3 of Satakunta Ospreys. Only warning for the screenshots is headless fishes again.

Supper feeding. There are quite a few shots of this, as I was really happy to see N2 doing so well and being active at begging and crawling to where the food is.

Fluffy and less fluffy chicks, and happy and sad events

A few cute screenshots of the Royal Albatross chick Tiaki, who is still a poofy cloud of a bird.

Got stung

Finally got my covid vaccination today. The arm doesn't hurt too bad so far, but I'm glad I didn't pick my drawing arm.

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.