#2021nestcampics

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Some of my favorites of the screenshots I’ve taken on raptor nestcam streams in the 2021 nesting season. Warning for views of fish prey.

Satakunta Ospreys (nest #3) - Parents Nuppu and Ahti, and chick Myy (now named and banded).

1. Mother-daughter selfie?

2. And a family portrait. Ahti in the foreground, shielding Myy from the sun. Nuppu has just returned to the nest from some undisclosed bird errands, during which Ahti watched Myy at the nest.

3. Nuppu (back) and Ahti spend a quiet moment together while Myy sleeps with a full crop.

4. Myy doing wing exercises on a misty morning.

5. Myy returning to the nest after fledging.

6. Myy defending her fish against mom. She doesn’t have siblings to squabble with, but this is good practice at food guarding.

7. Myy and Nuppu each eating their own fish, like Myy can now do completely independently. Nuppu still feeds her a bite from her own fish.

8. - 10. More beautiful morning Myys.

Bonus:

Ahti brings Myy a fish, and she grabs his toe instead.

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Some of my favorites of the screenshots I’ve taken on raptor nestcam streams in the 2021 nesting season. These are from the Sydney White-bellied Sea-eagle cam, with eaglets SE27 and SE28.

From 3 days (SE27) and barely 1 day old (SE28, whose egg shell is still in the nest) in the first picture to 4-5 weeks old in the 10th.

[kosmonauttihai]

Some of my favorites of the screenshots I’ve taken on raptor nestcam streams in the 2021 nesting season. These are from the Sydney White-bellied Sea-eagle cam, with eaglets SE27 and SE28.

1. older siblings make good leg rests

2. SE28 closeup

3. SE27, SE28. Five weeks old and growing their brown juvenile plumage.

4. & 5. They both stretched a wing at the same time and ended up with each having a wing wrapped around the other.

6. (`v´) (oʌo)  SE27 up, SE28 loafing.

7. eaglets look so funny when they sit

8. Sunning themselves with their wings spread. SE27 has one wing around the branch. 11 weeks old and juvenile plumage ready, not long before they fledge.

9. Exploring the nest tree branches together, encouraged by mother (peeking behind the branch on the left), who kept hopping from one branch to another with the eaglets following her.

10. SE27 spreading wings to fly out of the nest tree for the first time. SE28 fledged earlier the same morning.

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Some of my favorites of the screenshots I’ve taken on raptor nestcam streams in the 2021 nesting season. Warning for a headless fish prey, if that’s something you’d like to avoid seeing.

Satakunta Ospreys (nest #3) - Parents Nuppu and Ahti, and chick Myy. Myy had two clutchmates, who sadly didn’t survive a storm that struck the nest days after their hatching, so she grew up as an only child.

1. Mom Nuppu feeding 4-day-old Myy, who went by N2 at this point, being the middle-hatched chick.

2. Dad Ahti brooding a napping Myy.

3. A clumsy change of position was not appreciated by the chick, who bites Ahti's foot!

4. Yes, it’s night in this.

5. Preen preen.

6. - 9. Nuppu moves sticks in the nest, and keeps waking up Myy, who is trying to nap but is in the way. Then Nuppu turns without looking and bumps into Myy, which earns her, too, some critique from her offspring.

10. Myy preening Nuppu’s head feathers.

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Some of my favorites of the screenshots I’ve taken on raptor nestcam streams in the 2021 nesting season. Warning that besides cute raptor babies some screenshots will also show prey.

Southwest Florida Bald eagles - Parents Harriet and M15, and chicks E17 and E18. I’ve already posted screenshots of the chicks as newly hatched here.

1. E18 looking majestic drenched in fish juice at a feeding.

2. E17, E18. Getting ready for their first night at home in a week. Both eaglets caught an eye infection and were taken to a wildlife hospital after it became apparent it wasn’t going to heal on its own. This is from the day they were returned to the nest healthy again, and after successfully reuniting with both parents.

3. M15 has just finished feeding both eaglets, who are falling asleep with their crops full. E17 just plops its head on what was left of the food like it’s a pillow.

4. & 5. 3-week-old eaglets snuggling. They’re changing into their second down plumage and look like eagle-shaped dandelion puffs.

6. Dad was perching above the camera.

7. 4-week-old E17 finds leftovers and triest to self-feed. Holding the food with feet like how it should go, but the eaglets aren’t strong enough yet to stand and pin the food with their weight to tear pieces out of it. But it’s good practice.

8. E18 rests big crop on E17.

9. E17 (front) and E18, perching above the nest on the day the younger eaglet E18 fledged.

10. Harriet and two mantling fledglings, each fiercely guarding a piece of the food she brought.