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Fearless too it seems and he even can gain some height. Flew out of my wife's hand during his leg exercises and did this.

Called out loudly until we came over though afterwards, it might hav just been his first real flight, so we'll see how he goes in the morning now, i expect to come home and find him not in his nest at the end of the day from the looks of it.

The little fella is not afraid to stand up anymore, or insist on where he can sit his rump. Did not want to go to bed right away after perch practice or standing around, and spent all day standing around in his nest. He's a lot more confident on that leg now and all his fluff is falling off.

Tomorrow's a home day, tomorrow might be a "ground day" if he doesnt leave the nest on his own.

Someone leapt out of my hands, headbutt the wall, then started staggering around the pavers on my back verandah after their exercises this evening. I swear he's acting like my toddler used to.

Hasn't quite figured out the "walking" bit yet, but he has half of Buzz Lightyear's "falling with style" at least.

post physio, post perching practice, an attempt to see if he's got any residual muscle injury or a splayed leg, he's perching quite nicely and happily, couple that with a lot of wing tests both this evening while doing his leg physio and sitting in the nest at dawn, i think he's flight ready once he gets that confidence to take the leap...

This is what it looks like when you're trying ot rehabilitate a bad leg. He's certainly ready to fly though, tried more than once this evening to flap out of my hands.

and he's at the stage now where his talons are sharp enough for gripping bark, which means if i dont want to get a tetanus booster, i need to be wearing leather gloves from now on. But he was facinated by seeing himself in the camera though as you can see.

he wasn't in pain for those who are curious, he just didnt like that i was gently holding his left wing down so he wouldn't keep trying to scurry out from my hands. It's been a cold day and he tried to bolt into the cage while i was doing his therapy. You'll also see a few times i dont extend as far, that's me not forcing it if he tenses his leg up, i'm not trying to break a bone, just strengthening exercise.

Rather than showing you more of him in the nest, i figured I’d take a chance to show you his night time digs on our back verandah. He likes it in there, immediately repositions himself to be night and settled. The twigs and branches are piled up same as they are in the "nest", so he has to perch at night rather than sit on a flat. And the entire cage is draped in cloths to make sure it's nice and dark in there for him.

Cage used to be far to big for him, now I think he's getting far too big for it. but the little fella knows it's safe enough to go straight to sleep the moment he's inside, which is good. Beats having a distressed bird in a cage that's for sure.

I know i've been asked to post a video of the physio routine, he didnt want to cooperate in the wind this afternoon long enough for me to set up a video, so i'll try in the morning at dawn when the wind has stopped.

I put the little fella out, but the nest was obviously a fair bit too bare after a while, when i checked later it was shivering so i put the old rag in and now the ltitle fella is much more comfortable.

Has not stopped begging for food all morning, i mean more than usual, I've been able to hear him feels like every 5 minutes the parents are dropping off some food. Must be a growth spurt.

I didnt want to move until they were gone just in case i spooked 'em. I thought they were swooping me, but no, it was one of 'em with food in it's mouth and another flying to watch from the magnolia above.

The baby's feathers if you look are almost fully unfurled now compared to nearly a week ago when the little fella just had pins and nothing else on the wings. considering the movement he's had around the nest, i think he might try to leave in the next few days.

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Will post images later of "day 4", but figured this is what people would like to see RN. just after swapping the nest bedding over to something fresh. He's a little bit bigger than the size of an adult male's clenched fist right now.

Woke up to singing and tapping on my door at 6am, the two parents were waiting for me to bring the baby out of the cage for the morning, a bit impatient as one of them had managed to remove the blanket covering it. But we had a nasty wind and rain storm last night in the inner west, the father was swooping past with twigs in it's mouth so i'm betting they were wishing they had the nice warm and secure cage the baby did overnight.

Baby seems happy and well, alert and loud, was tracking me with it's eye and was happy to fall asleep in my hands while transferring it to the cage this morning.

Mumma bird was "Escorting" me with the baby in the bucket today as i set them back up for the morning.

best i could do, the tray is a bit too large to fit in any tree and anything i had that was deeper would have been too hard for the parents to access but they were singing for the little guy and have been there ever since. It's a bit exposed but at least it's not going to get attacked by cats.

there's been two parent magpies floating around, they've come near the box but nothing while this little guy squawks like crazy, WIRES said that it could be a while before anyone gets to him i think he's got a broken leg or some similar injury as he can't even stand up, and is just screaming at me for what i assume is either food or help whenever i go near.