FLUFFIEST PUFFS

June 4, 2015 9:14 AM

12 ridiculously adorable baby falcons have hatched atop 3 NYC bridges.

Here is the livestream of the nesting box atop the Tappan Zee Bridge.

posted by poffin boffin (25 comments total)

Why peregrines have also been called big-footed falcons.
posted by rtha at 9:20 AM on June 4, 2015

Oh my god! Angriest. Puffball. EVAR!
posted by The Bellman at 9:24 AM on June 4, 2015 [4 favorites]

I don't know why exactly, but I really think they look like The Beastie Boys in that first photo.
posted by sobarel at 9:24 AM on June 4, 2015 [3 favorites]

OK, so I think that this one is the same bird as in this one, because there's a particular look on his face that you don't see on the others.

That look can be described as "heh heh mah foot heh heh heh."
posted by phunniemee at 9:25 AM on June 4, 2015 [1 favorite]

I really think they look like The Beastie Boys in that first photo

yes
posted by poffin boffin at 9:27 AM on June 4, 2015

SO PUFFY
posted by The Whelk at 9:27 AM on June 4, 2015

They look so stupid. Like fluffy stupid stuffed animals. I think their weird expressions are shame-based.
posted by jeather at 9:33 AM on June 4, 2015 [2 favorites]

they look like dryer lint that just woke up with a terrible hangover.
posted by poffin boffin at 9:35 AM on June 4, 2015 [39 favorites]

ANGRY BABIES
posted by griphus at 9:37 AM on June 4, 2015 [1 favorite]

they look like dryer lint that just woke up with a terrible hangover.
-favorite metafilter comment of the week
posted by ghostiger at 9:46 AM on June 4, 2015 [2 favorites]

I'm not gonna lie, the looks of horror on their faces pretty much matches the look of horror on my interior face all of the time.
posted by Lemmy Caution at 10:12 AM on June 4, 2015 [2 favorites]

Nobody has told them they get to spend the rest of their life murdering pigeons. They'll cheer up when they get the news.
posted by maxsparber at 10:14 AM on June 4, 2015 [6 favorites]

Attica! Attica!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 10:18 AM on June 4, 2015 [1 favorite]

I showed this one to my boss and we agreed that these are the faces we both make when he comes into my office to ask me to do a thing.
posted by poffin boffin at 10:18 AM on June 4, 2015 [6 favorites]

My brain just exploded from the cutest, meanest-looking, CUTEST little things!
posted by xingcat at 10:22 AM on June 4, 2015 [1 favorite]

That look can be described as "heh heh mah foot heh heh heh."

Finally, something that human babies and falcon babies have in common.
posted by Existential Dread at 10:29 AM on June 4, 2015

St. Francis of Assisi more like St. Francis of Astoria
posted by showbiz_liz at 10:31 AM on June 4, 2015 [1 favorite]

What is up with this caption?
posted by showbiz_liz at 10:34 AM on June 4, 2015 [1 favorite]

Lemmy Caution: "I'm not gonna lie, the looks of horror on their faces pretty much matches the look of horror on my interior face all of the time."

It's the human condition, Lemmy.
posted by boo_radley at 10:37 AM on June 4, 2015 [2 favorites]

Raining feathers from the sky
Mother feeding her young
From the precipice
posted by effluvia at 10:39 AM on June 4, 2015

Their name is Toruk, Last Shadow. It's the last one you'll ever see.
posted by maxsparber at 10:46 AM on June 4, 2015 [1 favorite]

Go Mordecai!
posted by pxe2000 at 11:09 AM on June 4, 2015 [1 favorite]

Who's got adorable deadly talons? You do! Oh, yes you do!!!!

*Sudden screeching and wet tearing sounds*

Oh... yes... you do....
posted by GenjiandProust at 11:36 AM on June 4, 2015 [3 favorites]

What is up with this caption?

Maybe they thought the birds had a Game of Thrones sorta feel to them? And winter is coming in two seasons.
posted by lunasol at 5:12 PM on June 4, 2015

What is up with this caption?

Band name / photo.
posted by sacramental excrementum at 8:56 AM on June 5, 2015