and only a little bit. It has to be big enough for him to see, but not so big it chokes him.
Say 1/4 of a pinkie fingernail size thereabouts.
Is he alert, watching you? Does he flap his wings? do anything?
This is a trying time when nestlings fledge. They sometimes
can't fly too well and get stuck.
The eagles at Norfolk last year had some fledging videos on
YouTube showing a huge eagle getting stuck upside down and falling onto a lower branch. One of them got lost at the airport next to the Gardens and had to be retrieved!
So little birds have the same problems. We have a family of chickadees coming to our bird bath and feeder. We watch them from the porch. Its been a week now and the adults are still feeding them. A whole week already!
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Weezie looking at petunias 8.25.2017
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