In anticipation of banding at West End eagle nest

The West End Bald eagle triplets sitting together. WE1, WE2, WE3 l-r. The youngest eaglet WE3 turned six weeks old yesterday. Banding is planned for either this afternoon (April 24th) or tomorrow morning (by local time at the nest, which is in California)!

WE1 taking a nap.

WE2 (front) and WE3 tracking something.

Looking forward to seeing what's shown of the banding, and finding out any information that can be gathered by measuring the eaglets, such as potentially their genders. My guess for now is that WE1 and WE3 are female and WE2 is male. ETA: got two out of three - WE3 is male.

That's enough teeth already

Brunch with the girls.

The most pathetic excuse for a monorail ever. Look at that poor train traversing a track that's barely longer than it is. But my guests wanted a monorail, and this is the only place I could fit any stations, so here's your fucking monorail, enjoy.

Don't you hate it when someone takes a picture just when you're blinking.

The Isla Pena security mission rex was called Daffodil btw.

Having to make some more big carnivores on a stormy island, doing the Isla Sorna entertainment mission. They only broke one fence each during the storm, and I'd left a big empty space around their enclosures with a perimeter fence, and everyone was in storm shelters anyway. Kind of dreading the security mission on this island, though, since George the absolute madlad wants me to make an Indominus rex here.

Whatever the weather.

Siblings at sunrise

Bald eagle fledglings E20 (closer to camera) and E19 this morning at the Southwest Florida nest.

Wing stretch.

And a hop.

Hatch at Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest!

This season's clutch has started hatching at the Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest, with the first chick, L1, welcomed into the world in the late evening on April 21st. Two of the other eggs are also in the process of hatching now. And speaking of the eggs, this year the mother hawk Big Red laid four instead of the usual three!

Warning that all of the closeup screenshots of the chick also show dead animals clearly. The nest has a full pantry, and the food is kept close to the hungry mouths to feed.

Reluctantly, we have a T. rex

Going through the islands a second time to do all the stuff I skipped by just hopping to the next as soon as it was unlocked. The last time I was on Isla Pena, I'd purposefully made only herbivores, because while those are dangerous, too, they at least don't actively hunt the tourists if they get out, and this island gets frequent, fence-breaking storms. No meatasauruses here, especially no big apex predators like rexes, that would be stupid.

Entertainment mission:

:|

It wasn't so bad, though, Buttercup behaved herself for the time she needed to, and I sold her as soon as the mission was over. Phew.

Security mission:

Oh come on!

Bonus accidentally spoopy aesthetic shot of the Ceratosaurus tranquilized.

Birthday bird

Screenshots from the Big Bear Bald eagle nestcam. Include a few glimpses of prey.

The eaglet Spirit, starting to look like a proper raptor. Spirit turned seven weeks old yesterday.

Coordinated carnivore curling ups

Presidential alert: the girls are napping together! (Above: Ceratosaurus, below: Majungasaurus).

Sleepy sausage.