Related Clues:

• Young birds
• Batch that's hatched
• 23 across was once one of these little birds
• They've got there through the hatchway
• Baby birds
• Babes in the woods?
• Sent off to sling out the brood
• Slings net around birds not able to fly
• Aerie babies
• Police operations in Tyneside catching 50 youngsters