My fish!

Osprey fledgling and mother Myy and Nuppu at Satakunnan sääkset nest #3. Learning and teaching independence in various ways. Warning for a few views of a bloody fish.

Myy has fledged!

Congratulations to the osprey family at Satakunnan sääkset nest #3! Their only osplet fledged this afternoon and has safely returned to the nest, several times even. Many screenshots in this post.

Myy in the rain this morning.

Chiseled jawline

Or sculpted by some means, at least. Here's my progress so far on customizing the jawless Kenner raptor.

Starting with a length of aluminum wire, bent into an armature for the lower jaw.

Ospreycopter

Myy at Satakunnan sääkset nest #3 is getting close to fledging. She's perfecting her helicopter hovers in anticipation of her first flight.

Slapping Nuppu with wings again. Out of the way, mom!

Up!

Higher!

More boys

Two more JP raptor figures I've acquired for customizing, along with the jawless TLW raptor. And these guys are definitely in need of some TLC.

Pretty much every extremity has been chewed off - I assume by a dog and not a kid, although who knows, maybe it was a collaborative effort.

The figures are also from Kenner's TLW toyline; another tigerstripe raptor, and the "cyclops" one, so named because of one solid-white and probably blind eye (on the other side and not pictured here). I have quite a few of the tigerstripe's sculpt already, and had one as a kid, but not a single cyclops before. Well, whatever they're missing in addition to that eye, I'll do my best to replace.

The tigerstripe has one unmarred hand, and on his feet is only missing one toe in each, but his head is pretty much a lost cause. Which is a shame, as this one is actually one of the rarer variations of this figure, with green eyes instead of yellow. For what it's worth, the action feature still mostly works.

The cyclops has one whole finger left and on his feet only the sickle claws, but since his action feature is on the tail and neck, that still works just fine. He still has some of his head, but not sure how much of it I'll keep. Although a feature and not a flaw, the cyclops also has some "dino damage" as part of the design, and since I'm customizing these guys already, I'll probably get rid of that as well. He can have some scars, but the deep cuts all the way to the bone don't look terribly survivable, and are a bit much for me.

My plan is to turn these two into my OCs Singer and Beetlebiter, and have them be a set with Serene's figure. Although not the original eyes, the tigerstripe is going to get to keep his rarer eye colour, as Singer also has green eyes. The cyclops is going to go through a full repaint on top of the sculpting, to give him Beetlebiter's Trespasser Tribe B patterns. I think the choice of a figure is still quite fitting, as the scarred raptor pack leader from JP: The Game, known as simply Leader in the AU these characters are part of (and on that note, I've made a figure of her, too), is allegedly inspired by the cyclops raptor figure, and Beetlebiter is Leader's grandson. I'm also happy I happened to get to buy these two figures together, as Singer and Beetlebiter are a couple. Little Ruckus from my earlier raptor figure repaints is their daughter, and Singer and Serene are brothers.

This is going to be a challenge, but it's what I got them for.

Misty morning Myys

 

Wing practice and fish-waiting with the pretty backdrop of morning mist at the swamp, at Satakunta Ospreys nest #3.

Cute Myy screenshots, and news on nest #1 osplets

Osplet Myy at nest #3 of Satakunta Ospreys is growing into a strong and beautiful juvenile. She is 48 days old, and soon entering the age where she can be expected to fledge (49-55 days usually).

Here is a post in Finnish about Alma and Ossi's chicks from nest #1. (And here is the post on why they were moved, in both Finnish and English.)

To summarize in English, one of the two siblings has sadly died since then, of unknown causes (this was the one that was injured the least in the raven attack), but in happier news the other osplet has successfully fledged. The surviving fledgling is, as I've understood, the second-hatched chick A2, now known as SRS for the ID on the osplet's yellow leg band.

Ossi has been seen at his nest several times, including today accompanied by a female, so hopefully he will keep the nest despite the setbacks.

Ravens still hanging around in the area of nest #1 was also addressed. Both ospreys and ravens have nested in the area for years, and apart from this one time they have not bothered each other much, so they are not considered to be a cause for particular concern.

I'm really happy to hear of and see the photos of SRS. Despite all the tragedy one of the little ones still made it!

And now more Myy.