If you listen to the audio clip below you will be able to share in the capture of this photograph. The youngsters have been left he nest for a few days now and are already able to fly strongly. What's more, they are able to land successfully which is a real skill that doesn't come easily. I knew that as soon as they had mastered this they would be using the old oak tree as a good resting place and so it proved today with the young tercel spending 1 hour and three quarters on the branches just in front of the hide that I erected there in anticipation of just such an event. The image below is just about how it was and trimmed a little for artistic effect but not cropped. In fact the big problem at the moment is that my 300 lens is broken and I had to use the 500 which is a little large and I could hardly get all the bird in the frame and compose it nicely. I base hundreds and hundreds of shots and some great movie as well.

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