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Mom Big Red (left) and dad Arthur perching together in the morning near Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest. More screenshots of their adorable 2-3 weeks old chicks in the post, but warning that they also show prey close up.

Vihertää

Wingers, closeups, and beginning and near-complete juvenile plumages

Screenshots from two of the raptor nestcams I follow, first West End of Catalina Island Bald eagles, and then Cornell Red-tailed hawks.

Triplets napping together, using the rock as a pillow. Oldest chick Kana'kini in the middle, and youngest chick Ahote behind her. Middle chick Sky at the front has ended up with a piece of bark as a pillow case.

The next day I got a lot of nice closeups of the eaglets. Here's Sky standing by himself and Kana'kini (middle/back) and Ahote (right) looking like they're judging him for something, lol. Just looking around, though, eagles always look so stern with their brow ridges.

Sky is also nine weeks old on this day! Kana'kini is two days older and Ahote two days younger.

Wake-up rain

A pair of fake crocs

 

Decided the other end of the Isla Muerta sandbox park should house two Suchomimus. These are Cookiedough and her goth gf Verilettu.

I'm also learning to use the capture mode!

Baby raptors in piles and clusters

Screenshots from various raptor nestcams I follow.

First a peek at the newly hatched Peregrine falcon chicks at Cal Falcons. The first chick hatched on May 5th and the second May 6th, and last I checked the third egg is still unhatched.

Gold drops and fly poop

Dirty window at sunset after rain.