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Upstairs birds downstairs birds

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests, later in the post Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest. Include visible prey.

A feeding at nest#1. Oldest chick E1 is starting to grow out of its baby down, while E3 and E2 still look more like big hatchlings.

Growing chicks and growing clutches

Screenshots from Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest, and later in the post Sääksilive Osprey nests. The Osprey screenshots include fish prey.

M1 preening, M3 snoozing, M2 still properly asleep behind them with beak tucked into back feathers.

Painting Skye and Tumult

You can now find photos of the finished figures here at my site, and
here at deviantart. ETA: and here at tumblr.

The girls, accompanied by Tumult's auntie Shredder, whose colour palette is close to Tumult's so she makes a good reference on that.

Sculpting Skye again: body

Post about sculpting the body of grown-up version of Skyefigure.

Sculpting her head and wings have separate posts, and you can find all the posts relevant to making the figure set Skye is part of in this tag.

Sculpting Skye again: wings

Process of making wings for grown-up version of Skyefigure.

Post about sculpting the figure's head is here, and post about sculpting the rest of the body is here. All posts relevant to making Skye and the three other figures in her set can be found in this tag.

Sculpting Skye again: head

Because making from scratch a toy figure of my first and favorite JW Velociraptor OC once wasn't enough, I made another one, this time depicting her as an adult. This post is about sculpting the figure's head, I have two other posts about sculpting her wings and body. I didn't first complete one part and then move onto the next, and all were in progress simultaneously, but this felt like a logical way of dividing up recounting this rather lengthy birbmaking process (which took from November 2022 to May 2023).

Skye is part of a figure set with her wife and two kids. You can find all the posts relevant to making all four of them in this tag.

I seem to like to start my raptorsculptings with the mouth, and this time was no exception. It's a big part of a raptor's face, so a lot about the rest is just kind of built around it.