Estonian Osprey Nest (Ivo & Iiris) 2021

[zuza]

good day. finally a clean camera :). wet chicks are really hard to tell. I think when the feathers are dry will be clearer. probably next week they will be ringed?

[zuza]

now the feathers of the chicks are dry and the age is visible. the senior is no longer visible at all fluff. the middle one is still visible on the wings, the younger one can still see the fluff on the back

[Sappheira]

10:41
The feeding and fish are over.
All the chicks and Iiris ate well.
Look at the chick ... Soon they will be like Iiris.

[Sappheira]

11:51
Ivo brought a headless fish.



Iiris: Look, children, soon you will be flying like that.



12:03
None of the chicks wants to eat, Iiris eats and calls them.
12:15 Iiris finished the fish.

[Sappheira]

15:48 Ivo brought a large headless fish.

[Sappheira]

15:56
Chick # 1 exercises its wings, even trying to lift its legs from the bottom of the nest.

[Sappheira]

#1

[Sappheira]

15:30 Iiris finished feeding and eating fish.
It is already difficult to move around the nest, the whole place is occupied by grown chicks.

[Owlie]

Big thanks to you, Sappheira for all the season documenting, you do a great work, it is a pleasure to follow the thread!

It must be close to the ringing time, Kotkaklubi ...?

19:41

[Sappheira]

Owlie
thank you for your kind words, the most interesting is yet to come, our chicks are beginning to develop wings, trying to eat fish themselves, and are already catching up with their parents in growth.

17:11
Iiris is trying to make a shadow, but how to close such big children?

[Sappheira]

17:49
I look forward to the day when the chicks will receive their rings,
because it is already very difficult to distinguish between them, especially the two older ones.

#2 and #1


#3 and #2


#1

[Sappheira]

[Sappheira]

20:46
Ivo brought a small fish.

[Sappheira]

20:47 Iiris flew away with the fish.



She returned a minute later.

[Sappheira]

21:37
Another headless fish from Ivo.

[Cessie]

June 25
Good Wet Morning!

5:52am papa Ivo, delivered a beautiful whole fish to his family!
The chicks and mama Iiris, are soaking wet.
Not comfortable I can imagine. But they will have full crops!
The picture is much cleaner from the rain.
This is a good thing.

[Sappheira]

4:14 - 5:57 It was raining.

[Sappheira]

5:52am papa Ivo, delivered a beautiful whole fish to his family!

[Sappheira]

6:49 Iiris has finished feeding the chicks, the fish is eaten.

[Sappheira]

7:12
Iiris moves a branch.