Decorah Fledgling returns from second flight

The other birds watch as the fledgling fly to the tree and lands in a branch above the cameras view then drops down to the larger branch this was its second flight. They just don't have the skill yet to fly straight to the branch like a grown eagle, so this is as good of a shot as we are going to get for now. I think Bob Anderson describes this flight in the fourth paragraph He saw it from the ground in person http://www.raptorresource.org/new.htm#decorahthanks

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• bald eagles
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• eagle fledgling
• first flight
• fledgling eagle

[AliceSeaAnn]

Good capture. I wonder where s/he was coming from? Another higher branch? some other tree? Clumsy landing for sure. But for a first timer I would give him/her an 8!

[billlaughlin]

@AliceSeaAnn Watch the reaction of the three birds on the branch as the fledgling comes in for a landing, mom is the first to see then their heads follow it all the way to the branch the "clumsy landing" is very natural you don't expect to fly as well as a adult eagle, it had to be some distance from the tree ,when first sited my its parent

[elfenruler]

time stamps show this vid to be edited -- from 10:19 jumps to 1:20, and adult is in the first segment but not the second. There is no fledge here, and the fly-by is by an adult, see the white head and tail?

[billlaughlin]

@elfenruler Some people see what they believe others believe what they see

[lostmyshu]

so very very cool! TX for the post! : )

[davidsudest]

Superbes aigles !

[WahdaMae]

Yay!! I am assuming that was Trubble?? :)