Island pain relief

A new sandbox park experiment, this time on Isla Pena. The island looks quite different in daylight and without a twister in the middle of the park.

Welcome, can I interest you in... a giftshop and a fast food restaurant? No? There are plenty of those on the other islands and if you want to shop or dine properly you'll just travel back there, perhaps to the island where your hotel is? That's what we thought, too, though it never hurts to have some means for the guests to refuel themselves, and spend some money, too.

The fast food is entirely vegetarian, to avoid its scent attracting our attractions to the tourists too much even when people take food with them to the rest of the island. We also have a shelter for emergencies, and also a bathroom, for emergencies, but what you're probably here for is another monorail ride away.

Raptor chicks fed by mom, self, dad, and... sibling?

Screenshots from the Cal Falcons and Cornell Redtail nestcams, both of which had some unusual feeding arrangements yesterday.

Warning that prey is clearly visible in the feeding screenshots.

A double sploot.

Chicks are woken up from their nap by Alden arriving with prey.

Aspiring terrors of the skies

Screenshots from various avian raptor nestcams I follow.

First Cornell Red-tailed hawks. Mom Big Red feeding the chicks breakfast yesterday. L2 is next to her on the left, and at the front are L4, L3, and L1 from left to right. Warning for prey visible in the nest in some of the screenshots, but not in focus.

Glitches in birbmatrix

More screenshots of my Jurassic Park/World raptor AU characters turned into sims.

Pillow fight! Wait, what are you looking at?

Daydreamer can see the plumbobs!

They allopreen!

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.