Nearly an hour has passed and all three chicks are still in the nest box! A chick keeps on popping up onto the nest box hole but is never brave enough to take the plunge (literally!) and fly.
Here Babe is trying to encourage a chick to give it a try.
"You go like this," says Babe!
"Do you think he means it this time?"
The chick eases himself out of the box a little more ...
... and flies!
Elizabeth saw it fly high up into the hornbeam tree to which the box is attached. She then lost sight of it.
"Perhaps I should go too!"
This time it's Ferdinand who does the encouraging,
But no - it can't quite bring itself to fly.
A few seconds later it is back on the hole again.
Will it fly this time?
Yes! I saw this one go from the bedroom window. It flew right across the garden to the tall hedge the other side.
Now Scrap is all by himself for the first time in his short life!