Raising those new feathers to the sky and flying is the easy part.
It’s the learning to land that takes practice.
This young falcon’s first flight landed him in a spot where his parents apparently couldn’t get food to him, so he went hungry for twenty-four hours. Now that’s a long time for any teenager, and when it got to be too much he made a break for home.
Nope. A little too high. (His brother sees him.) Well then I’ll just…
(I meant to do that, as his brother’s feathers flare wide in surprise.)