Well, we can all relax. He apparently worked up the nerve to fly away this weekend, probably the day after I posted about it. Maybe he reads TOTV. I haven't seen him all week.
It's still weird. Last year we had one attempt to fly away too soon, and when I walked by, I found him flopping around on the ground, looking longing up at the nest, with Mom and Dad worrying about him from the tree tops (and a few villagers doing the same from the ground). Somebody eventually removed him to Homosassas, from what I heard.
We always think of Eagles as fearless defenders of freedom. Turns out they have adolescent growing pains, same as all of us. Just regular folks!
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