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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JTweedie" data-source="post: 1504336" data-attributes="member: 8075">I think it's hard to get the right balance when it comes to intervening.  It was strange that Simon King talked about their no intervention policy, and then immediately they tried to help the chick.  As we watched the chick swimming in the water, several times it appeared to be just about to get up onto a rock, so it was never clear until the very end that it was in real trouble.  You mention predation is a different story, but the body of the chick will probably have been picked up by a scavenger, perhaps a Carrion Crow or a Common Buzzard, or maybe a Stoat, so at the end of the day, even what appears like a wasted death might benefit some other animal.</blockquote>