They eat the mouse and fly back to the nest.

Meaning: This sentence describes what the owlets do after they find food: they eat it and then return to their home.

Choice of Words: Eat means to put food in your mouth and swallow it, and fly means to move through the air using wings.

Alternative Expressions

Related Expressions

• It carried the mouse back to its nest.
• They learned to fly and left the nest.
• They learned to fly and leave the nest.
• Birds chirp merrily as they fly back to their nests.
• They left nest to fly on their own.
• They fly out of the nest.
• Eagle carries prey back to nest for hungry eaglets.
• Owl carried prey back to nest, feeding owlets.
• It flew back to its nest in the tree.
• The eagle carried its meal back to its nest.