Where cat?

Having a secret nap.

Royal Baby

The Royal Albatross cam has also gotten a new star, who hatched January 24th. Here are a few screenshots I got of the chick just now.

So tiny.

3-day-old fluffy terrors

The SWFL eagle twins are growing fast. They're quite feisty, too, and have shown that small age difference does not necessarily mean less sibling rivalry. A more usual order of events is that the eaglets fight, the younger realizes it's outmatched and submits, the older eaglet is fed first, and the younger is fed once the older is full and ready for a nap. Since they're so evenly matched neither wants to submit, and so they have a wrestle basically between each bite of food.

No one's gotten hurt, though, and both have gotten plenty to eat. Feisty babies are healthy and strong babies.

(cw: the last screenshots in the post show a half-eaten fish in the nest)

Sinilumi

More of the SWFL eagle twins

Screenshots of the two eaglets who hatched yesterday at SWFL eagle cam.

Dad is with them at the moment. There's no food at the nest right now, but it looks like the chicks are eager to eat once it arrives. The last of the yolk from the egg is still inside them as food, so there's not too much hurry with that, and they can take their time strengthening their neck muscles enough to be able to hold their head up first.

I'll just say right now that I probably won't be able to tell them apart all season. That's okay, they're both cute.

Two hatches in a day!

Both of the two eggs at the SWFL Bald Eagle nest have hatched yesterday afternoon. While last season's E15 and E16 hatched almost three days apart, the newest hatchlings E17 and E18 only have less than two hours of age difference!

Dad M15 taking over brooding duties soon after the hatches. Older sibling E17 still hasn't completely dried their down feathers, and E18 has split the shell open but still has it around them.

Collision, pages 20&21

Comic can be found here at my site (all pages in one), and here at deviantart (link to gallery folder that also contains all pages).

(Warning for mostly obscured dead animal on both pages, but no visible blood)

These are the last two pages of the comic.