Oberhausen

The eyases here are now 21 days old. The first juvenile feathers begin to poke through the down on the breast and on the head beside the eyes. The chicks continue to rest on their tarsi much of the time, rather than standing on their feet, but this balance shifts quickly in the days to follow. Around the edges of the wings the feathershafts are very clearly visible now.
It strikes me that these eyases are not wandering about a lot, or trying to get to the entrance of the scrape. They just stay in the back of the nest and are not active at all. I have seen totally different behaviour in other eyries.