Fliers and fluffballs

Screenshots from CalFalcons and Cornell Redtail nestcams. The CalFalcons Peregrine chicks are currently fledging! The older two chicks, Rosa and Zephyr, already have, Luna is still considering. These screenshots are mostly from a couple of days ago, with all three still home, and two shots from today's fledgewatch stream. Some screenshots include visible prey.

Zephyr (front), Luna (yawning in the middle) and Rosa perching on the lights in the morning.

Bring on the brushes!

Hey, remember when I said I might finish sculpting my newest Skyefigure by my birthday? That was funny.

I have finished sculpting her now, though! Here she is with Tumult, both still a work in progress and transitioning from sculpting projects to painting projects together.

Both already have some paint on them here. Tumult has a partial first coat of white mixed with a bit of raw sienna, just to cover up the epoxy putty on her sides and the darker markings where I want her base colour instead. Skye has much of the back of her neck already painted, as it was easier to alternate painting feathers and adding new ones there than it would have been to try to fit a brush between the feathers afterwards. Some of her cheek fluff is also painted, the rest of her that's colourful is just made with polymer clay that's already mixed to be that colour.

I'll eventually compile into a couple of posts my ramblings and WIP photos about sculpting Skye that I've posted to my Patreon over the past almost 6 months, and about making figures of Tempest and Cloudburst, too. Hopefully I'll get to show off finished versions of these ladies and their little terrors soon.

The tag for all the posts relevant to this figure set is
"stormraptorfamily figure WIPs".

The tag "Skyefigure WIPs" that I already had is about sculpting the figure of juvenile Skye three years ago. She's all grown up now, so this new figure is an adult version of her, accompanied by her wife and kids.

Sunset blue

Near-hatchlings and near-fledglings

Screenshots from two nestcams, first the Cornell Red-tailed hawks, later in the post CalFalcons Peregrines. Some prey visible at both.

Breakfast three days ago at Cornell.

And some loafings with mom. Not sure which older chick is which, but I'm pretty sure the most visible one is the youngest, M3. They're all still a week old - M3 a week and one day, while M1 is getting close to two weeks.

Roof-dwelling

Screenshots of the Peregrine chicks at CalFalcons. The three siblings are now four weeks old, and have been given names. Warning for bloody prey in later screenshots.

Rosa (oldest chick, female, red band) preening her legfeathers while Luna (youngest chick, female, blue band) inspects her sister's toes. Zephyr (middle-hatched chick, male, yellow band) looks around in the foreground.

There's everyone's faces. They're currently pretty easy to tell apart even without seeing the bands because of different stages at feather development.

Now three buzzard eyases

Screenshots of the Cornell Redtail chicks. All three have now hatched, although not yet in this screenshot (M1 left, M2 right). Warning for closeups of bloody prey.

Two little buzzards

Screenshots of the Cornell Redtail chicks. There are now two! But first a bunch of screenshots of the first one by itself. Warning that several screenshots show bloody prey, food is stored near the beaks to feed at this nest.