Bird Watching: All three chicks have fledged., 1 by MargaretK

MargaretK wrote:
These birds are such co-operative subjects sometimes. And when the lighting is just right, it's hard to go wrong.

I haven't seen all three juveniles for over a week, but I think they're all OK. At any one time I've seen two and heard a third. Yesterday I could see two together - even being fed together by Big Hook on the nest. Before that, one of them was eating a fish by itself and its sibling was sitting on the right hand branch, dozing, but would wake briefly to eye what its brother or sister had, give a brief pleading call and promptly go back to sleep. After about an hour, hunger pains must have made their presence felt and it flew down onto the nest to get its share of the fish.

Here's one of the juveniles heading down from the branch to the nest.