Griffon Vulture Webcam in Israel

[Marbzy]

09:39 The camera pays a visit to the Egyptians


14:12 The senior chick is already sporting a feather coat, while the junior still looks completely bare


14:21 Welcome back!

[Marbzy]

14:22 Am I on TV again? Gosh...


14:23 Give me some food or go away


14:23 Yes, I'm talking to you

[Marbzy]

14:50 The youngster keeps pursuing the shade


14:53 The little griffon looks like a copy of Mom in this image!


15:50 It's too hot again

[Marbzy]

16:30 Here's one way to make air move


16:45 There's a visitor on the right in the horaltic pose


16:46 Are you going to introduce yourself?

[Marbzy]

16:49 It's T20, been here before


16:50 I missed the beginning of the visit, but since 16:45 there's been absolutely no aggression from either party


16:52 Is T20 going to socialise with the youngster?

[Marbzy]

16:54 Not at all


17:40 Someone's reported a visit from vulture no. 72 (K72 probably) at 17:36; right now the chick appears to have no company


19:11 A heart-shaped chick

[Marbzy]

19:19 I'd rather be heart-shaped than pear-shaped


19:20 Between 7 and 8 pm there are several brief burts of activity form the little griffon


19:40 The day will have been rather lean

[Marbzy]

19:41 Here I come!


19:46 The chick even attempts a jump or two towards the left-hand-section of the ledge almost losing his/her footing in the process (it's nail-biting watching, but at this stage it's still rather scary to think what would happen if the chick slipped...)


19:51 Speaking of nails... The head-scratching action is more and more fluent though not fully stable yet

[Marbzy]

19:53 The good news is that there seems to be enough room on the ledge for these exercises


20:01 How I wish I could cross over...


20:11 Did someone say "Button Eye"? (Cheers to the Latvian hawklets!)

[Marbzy]

20:31 The chick has melted like a snowman in spring


21:05 No worries, I'm just relaxing (and preening, there's no end to preening now - parasites?)


23:05 And that'll be good night!


The little griffon is now 109 days old.

[Polly]

20:11 Did someone say "Button Eye"? (Cheers to the Latvian hawklets!)

Cheers ... Button eye was exploring today.

Here I come

And it looks so strong and beautiful ....

[Marbzy]

11 June

01:15 Sleeping in a messy heap


02:15 This looks much better except that the chick isn't sleeping (there's a funny little creature I can't identify just north of the bottom left corner of the image, perhaps a lizard)


08:02 The chick, all bristled up, has just got up from the nest floor and run to its current spot

[Marbzy]

08:03 The feathers are now back to normal


08:27 A quiet Thursday morning?


09:00 Still nothing worthy of note (and I've got to go)

[Marbzy]

At 9:17 the chick was being fed by Dad (first-hand observation). (S)he may have been fed again around noon (according to a post below the stream), presumably by Mom.

17:04 No surprises


18:25 An epilogue to a bout of vigorous wing exercise


18:35 Are those my folks?

[Marbzy]

18:57 Left wing out


18:58 Yes, I've eaten a little today, in case you were wondering


18:59 Right wing out

[Marbzy]

19:35 Right after this the chick breaks into a fit of begging frenzy


19:36 Enter Dad with both wings out and a beetroot instead of the head


19:36 What a meal!

[Marbzy]

19:37 Dad' must have been to a bloodbath...


19:37 It's an unusually late supper


19:38 The beging mode is still on

[Marbzy]

19:38 Dad keeps delivering, while the chick is ready to absorb any quantity of food and in any posotion that may or may not be required


19:39 Crazy scenes!


19:40 One more bite (or peck)

[Marbzy]

19:41 See you tomorrow


19:43 The late meal hasn't motivated the chick into action


19:54 Flying with a large crop does not seem a major challenge for adult griffons, but if (a) you haven't started flying, (b) you have just been fed, (c) it's going to get dark in a few minutes, then you might not be in the mood to practise

[Marbzy]

20:06 That huge crop one more time


20:06 A profile


20:51 Good night!


The chick is 110 days old tonight.