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Wednesday, April 20. 2022

First Flight


These fledglings made their first long flights away from their home tree this morning. They wandered around for a few hours, and made their ways back for a rest. Of course, their instinctual need to fly around is a big part of it, but part of what is happening now (at around 3 1/2 months) is that the parents are cutting back hard on the fish deliveries. No more breakfast, lunch, and supper. Sort-of starved into independence.


Hunger might help drive their exploratory impulses, and slim them down so they can become swifter and more aggressive hunters.




Posted by Bird Dog at 17:02 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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They are more common around here now. I saw one on my walk this morning, which was unheard of in my youth. Admittedly, I was within a mile of the Merrimack, a hotspot.
#1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-04-20 17:31 (Reply)
Any lessons to be drawn regarding the upbringing of human offspring? Let me think....
#2 Steve on 2022-04-21 07:15 (Reply)
Based on personal observations, I'm with you.
#2.1 RebeccaH on 2022-04-21 16:07 (Reply)
No eagles around here, but I've been seeing a lot more hawks and owls than I used to (southwest Ohio). To paraphrase Heinlein, nature is a harsh mistress.
#3 RebeccaH on 2022-04-21 16:06 (Reply)
We have an osprey nest in the yard, right at window level. Every year we watch the fledglings start popping up, then its a foot up, then 2 or 3 feet, and finally that first flight, 15 feet over and 10 feet down to the same branch on the next tree over. Without fail they turn and look back, then look up and see the nest, and I know at that moment in their little bird brains they say "Oh shit. How do I get back up there?"
#4 just waiting on 2022-04-22 00:18 (Reply)

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