An unexpected addition

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Includes views of fish prey.

Morning preens by Utu and Lumme at nest #1 yesterday.

Photogenic perching

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Includes views of fish prey.

Lumme at nest #1 yesterday morning.

Much ado about sticks

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests.

At nest #1, Lumme flies home from her sleeping tree, and brings a stick with her.

Visits and wingers in the rain

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Includes views of fish prey.

Lumme and Utu at nest #1 yesterday, each eating their own fish on a rainy evening.

The weather seemed to give them the zoomies, as there was a lot of wingercizing by the already fledged chicks on the nest. It was quite windy, too, and I guess getting the wind under their wings made rising in the air really easy.

Pocket-sized Transgender Pride flag

Pieces of plastic cut from a bag of chocolates. The colours pink and light blue as stripes looked familiar, and so I decided it's time to make another pocket-sized Pride flag.

I cut four thin pieces from the borders of the colours, and glued them together with a piece of white printer paper inbetween. The plastic is a little translucent, so I used a minimal amount of glue on the edges. I added a white stripe in the middle on each side from a sticker sheet that had a lot of blank space around the images, and I'd left the pink stripes a little wider than the blue so the sticker goes over them a little, and sticks them to the paper more firmly.

Glued it to a pole, and it's a tiny Transgender Pride flag! Holographic star stickers for a little extra decoration. The pole is a lollipop stick, and has a bit of white washi tape at one end because I'd apparently bitten a hole in it?

I had a little photoshoot with the finished
flag featuring my raptors who are trans.

🏳️‍⚧️ 🐦 🏳️‍⚧️

Journeys on wing and foot

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Includes views of fish prey.

Nuppu feeding N2/USU at nest #4 yesterday. N2 has since left the nest - not the way we hoped for, but there could have been worse ways, too. N2 was perched on a branch next to the nest last night, when he suddenly stumbled and fell. He survived the fall, and didn't seem significantly more injured when he was located on the ground this morning, but as he can't fly and would not have made it back to the nest on his own, he was retrieved and is currently in human care.

A show of wings

Screenshots from Sääksilive Osprey nests. Includes views of fish prey.

N2/USU at nest #4 at sunset.

Wing stretches this morning.