Bird Watching: Growing in an Osprey's Garden #6, 0 by MargaretK

MargaretK wrote:
Well, these last 36 hours have been some of the most harrowing I've ever experienced. I'd received an email from Madam X telling me that the chick had been up onto the branch. She also said that her heart had been in her mouth several times throughout the morning when the chick was flying vertically upwards so high above the nest she was afraid that it wouldn't have the skill to safely land back on the nest again. It had even landed on top of Big Hook on one occasion.

When I arrived at the nest on Saturday afternoon, the chick was on the nest. Big Hook and Dad were nowhere to be seen. Within a minute of me arriving, the chick started to exercise and look towards the right hand branch and it was obvious that it was going to head up there.