But they are light sleepers, always on the look-out for danger.
Look at the feathers coming from the wing tips. You can see the shafts where each feather emerges. This shafts will either fall out on there own or will be removed by preening.
Mom really is funny when feeding the chick. Here, she is actually rearing back away from the chick. The chick had to take a step toward Mom and still lean way over to get the bite.
Mom was trying to tear smaller pieces off of a bigger piece of food, when Kendi took it and tried to down the whole thing. Does it all go down? Watch Kendi's Big Bite (1:10):
Here is "after" the big bite...
I got to see all three chicks today at the Dyfi Osprey nest. W1 on the left had been eating but was now just standing on what was left of a fish. And W3 is hungry.
W3 made his move and took the fish.
W1 went out onto the branch that sticks out from the nest. That's a pretty background!
Three Osprey can be seen perched together in the distance.
Back at the nest, W2 on the left arrived and watched W3 finish the fish.
One of the parents landed in the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Loch of the Lowes nest. No fish.
But two of the kids thought there might be a fish. One lands right after the parent.
Then another kid lands a minute later.
The Soddy Daisy Bluebirds are still just a writhing heap of eating, pooping, and sleeping.
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