Fish delivery claims at West End

Screenshots from the West End of Catalina Island Bald eagle nestcam. The three eaglets are seven weeks old, with the oldest turning eight weeks today, and are all able to eat independently now. A lot of the food deliveries from parents are now just dropping off a prey for the chicks to bicker over and figure out on their own what to do with it.

The middle-hatched eaglet, Sky (previously known as WE2, and also known as 23/D by his leg band ID). Looking photogenic a few seconds before he somewhat less photogenically coughed up a pellet still on closeup.

Sky, Ahote, Kana'kini. The three watchful guardians of incoming snacks.

Navigating the nest cup

Screenshots from the Cornell Red-tailed hawk nestcam. The four chicks are 11, 9, 8, and 4 days old, respectively. Warning for close views of bloody prey.

Breakfast. The youngest chick L4 on the left is in good position for this meal and gets plenty to eat.

A snugglepile of baby buzzards. L4 in the middle at the front, the older sibling on the right might be L1? I definitely can't tell L2 and L3 apart even when they're all seen clearly, since having only a day's age difference they're so close in size, too. But the main thing is all four are eating, growing, and thriving.

Rainbow fishchickens (affectionate, with an asterisk)

They're so colourful!

Names for the West End eagle triplets

A few screenshots from the West End of Catalina Island Bald eagle nestcam. The three eaglets have been doing well, and after banding and later names given by Institute for Wildlife Studies donors, now have many things to call them.

They do move in herds, for better or for worse

Big date.

How come you never crowd into the frame like this when I have one of those photograph a dinosaur contracts?

Little behavior details I appreciate that the game includes: Dilophosaurus shaking its frill as a relaxed idle animation, like a bird rousing its feathers.

Full quartet

Screenshots of the now four Red-tailed hawk chicks from the Cornell nestcam. Warning for close views of bloody prey.

All four in a pile this morning. The youngest chick L4 is first one from left, oldest chick L1 first from right. Not sure which of the other two is which.

Three, soon to be four

The fourth chick L4 finally hatched last night at the Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest. While I wait for morning to reach their timezone so I can see the new baby, here's screenshots of the older three babies from the days leading up to the hatching. Warning for closeups of bloody prey.

Mom Big Red and her three little reds, L3 being less than a day old here.

I think that's L3 in the background getting a feeding, L1 and L2 in the foreground being sleepy.