Life moves on.  The ospreys in Jamestown have given birth to two new osprey.  While there is a third in the nest I believe that one of them is a stray bird that has joined the  family as it appears it is also an adult bird.  The mother appears to have been teaching them to fly so they would be ready to make their way out into the world.  Isn't this something we all to do eventually with our own children.  We have to give them the tools to leave the "nest" so they can"fly" on their own out into the world.  Unlike the osprey we are hesitant to let our children leave the nest.  We are afraid for them.  We sometimes feel the tools that we have given them are not enough to show them the way.  We are afraid to let them take the chance to spread their wings.  The osprey knows that their offspring have to leave  the nest and be on their way into their future to survive on not on their own. 
It's a huge world out there but somehow the osprey seems to find its way to eventually move out of the safety and comfort of the nest to create it's own family and start the process all over again.  Once we have given our children the tools that will help them direct their lives we must put fear aside and trust that our children will have the strength and ab ility as well as the desire to make their own way into the world.  Fly ospreys ...Fly!!!

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