NX's Location, Dancing Bluebird on Feathered Photography, Screen Captures of the Alcoa Osprey Nest

NX checked in today. She is about a mile south of her last check in.

Ron Dudley posted some great pictures of a dancing bluebird on his Feathered Photography blog.

Here's the rest of the Osprey s'caps from yesterday:

I think that growing requires a lot of stretching. This was a really big stretch:

Very often, they will stretch one wing, then fold it back in. These two were laying side by side, and they both did one of these stretches at different times. Just for fun, I combined the two s'caps into one picture:

This youngster did a big stretch that included its leg. After tucking its wing back in, it never did tuck its leg back in. Look at the size of that talon! I wonder if taking up this much room in the nest is like hogging the covers?

I took this s'cap to show the difference in the adult and chick's eye color. The chick's eye color is more orange (on the left) than the yellow of the adult's eye (on the right):

This is a good time to see a lot of wingercizing. This chick got some serious air:

The chicks are also careful to back up to the edge of the nest when they need to poop. This might look like a stretch, but you can tell it's going to be poop when they back up to the edge of the nest first. If you're still not sure which it is, wait to see if the poop flies:

Different chick, same activity. And yes, that's a lot of poop -- not part of the logo or spillway:

All this activity is hard on a nest. A lot of the sticks end up going over the side. The parents bring in new sticks every day:

Here's a s'cap from 5/10, for comparison: