Relatively secure

Best photo my rangers have taken of a T. rex so far. Sleepy Anemone.

Peaceful eating turns

Screenshots from this morning at nest#4 of Sääksilive Osprey nests. Warning for views of fish prey, but no sibling rivalry this time.

Dad Niilo perching at the front after bringing a very early breakfast fish to the nest. Mom Nuppu feeding N1(back/right) and N2, who are eating side by side without squabbling.

Eating turns

Screenshots from nest#4 of Sääksilive Osprey nests. The two chicks are growing, and figuring out how to share the nest while they do. Warning for views of fish prey, and sibling rivalry.

Both chicks have already eaten earlier in the day, and the younger, too, has a noticeable crop. But more would fit.

Sky fledges!

The last one of the three eaglets I've been watching since they were hatchlings at West End of Catalina Island Bald eagle nest has fledged! Sky the middle-hatched chick took his time after his older sister and younger brother had already shown flying can be done a while ago, but it was a very deliberate fledge with a safe return to nest soon after.

I don't have a screenshot of the flight itself, but I do have these of Sky head-bobbing (triangulating) right before. A tell-tale sign that a chick is about to test its wings to get to whatever spot it's figuring out the distance to.

Two fledglings on Turtle Rock.

Sky (left) and little brother Ahote back at the nest with a bird prey. Older sister Kana'kini perching in the background.

So good to see Sky finally trust his wings to carry him and join his siblings as a fledgling. All three will now practice their flying by zipping and soaring between rock peaks before they eventually make the journey to the mainland.

Securing

A little something I'm working on at one end of an Isla Tacaño challenge mode park. An area separate from the rest of the park, accessible to guests via monorail, and housing carnivores I consider to need some extra security measures. The plan was Deinonychus and Velociraptor, but the dig team brought so many T. rex samples while digging for something else, that I changed that to T. rex and Velociraptor, still fitting the description of needing more security. Though it may end up being T. rex and Deinonychus, since I haven't gotten around to installing any mods, and frankly the Deinos just are more fun to look at than the basegame Velos.

But this should work, right? I'm playing on medium difficulty, and we've had storms that cause structure damage, but only to buildings, and there have been no twisters at all even though I've been playing for long enough that this is the last area I still hadn't built in. The extra security measures are needed because these particular dinos seem to be easily upset by storms, though, and may want to break out. But that's what the perimeter fence is for.

First storm alert after I'd incubated the rex and gotten her settled in - here we go:

L4 fledges!

The babiest of the baby buzzards at Cornell Red-tailed hawk nest has finally flown out of the nest for the first time! I took a bunch of screenshots of L4 on the night before and the morning of the fledge.

And though I don't have screenshots, looks like both Peregrine chicks I've been checking in on at Cal Falcons have also already fledged recently!

Later in the post are also screenshots of the Osprey chicks at Sääksilive nest#4, still small and a long way from fledging. (warning for a few visible fish preys in those, as well as a bout of sibling rivalry)

L4 on the power box at the end of the nest platform in the evening. Not much of the chick is visible here, but I find the lens flares pretty.

A room