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This is the season I look forward to each year. (Full disclosure: I say that about all the seasons.) This is the season where young birds leave the nests and are cared for by their doting parents until they can fly and feed themselves. The next generation of wild things make their homes on this beautiful mountain. And the mountain always provides for them.

This handsome teen has been waiting for his mom and dad to bring him some food, in the way he has always known. But it’s nature’s way to teach independence to all things, and this young one is no different. He will only be fed now when he flies after mom and dad, strengthening his wings and discovering his true place in the world – in the air, soaring above us all.