Steve Pollick: Bald eagle fledglings ready to take flight

Watching young bald eagles fledge is like being a father overseeing his kid’s first attempt to ride a bicycle, tottering training wheels and all.
I have been a volunteer eagle-nest watcher weekly since early February for a handful of nests monitored by the Sandusky County Park District in Ohio. Now at the end of May is when five eaglets in three of my nests have grown, precociously, to adult size. They still have four years of growing pains and perils to navigate before mating and raising young themselves, but it all starts with the first flight off the nest.

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