Here you see June yesterday; she’s the youngest and smallest of Ozzie and Harriet’s three fledglings.

She’s alone in the family nest, as usual; she’s loudly begging for food, as usual, and, the tantrum worked, as usual. Ozzie appeared out of nowhere with a fish, she wiggled her tail and screamed like a young hatchling, and Ozzie dropped the fish beside her:

As we have been reporting, this is troubling activity; there is something wrong. June should be learning to fish, as her siblings (David and Ricky) are doing. Ozzie and Harriet always have migrated in mid- to late-September. June will be in significant danger if she doesn’t learn to fish for herself before then. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on August 30, 2022.)

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