When Suzan Bellincampi, director at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, received a call Friday from Amy Anderson about three fallen osprey chicks on their property by Lake Tashmoo, she knew just the man for the job: her husband.

Ms. Bellincampi’s husband, Jean-Marc Dupon, has helped rescue everything from barn owls to seagulls. His level of experience isn’t easy to find on the Vineyard.

“There’s very limited rehabilitation capabilities on the Island,” said Ms. Bellincampi. “There’s really just no one who can go out and do these things.”

But first the couple checked in with Stephanie Ellis, wildlife rehabilitator and executive director at Wild Care on Cape Cod, and Ms. Ellis gave Mr. Dupon the go-ahead to take a look at the birds.

A friend with a boom truck arrived to help Jean-Marc get the birds back to their nest. — Suzan Belincampi

On the scene, Mr. Dupon found the chicks at the bottom of a pitch pine tree with remnants of their collapsed nest scattered in the dirt around them. Ms. Bellincampi said the damage was likely the result of recent storms.

After capturing them for closer examination, Mr. Dupon conducted a full-length checkup of the chicks. He searched for injuries, looking closely for any signs of bleeding and inspecting their legs and claws to make sure they could still flap their wings. The osprey chicks appeared to be healthy, he said, though it was clear they weren’t fully fledged yet.

“They were probably still about two weeks out from flight,” Mr. Dupon estimated.

The nest was wedged high in the pine branches, about 35 feet up, and the large chicks would have to be transported manually. Ms. Bellincampi and Mr. Dupon contacted a landscaper at Up-Island Trees, who said he could come by with a boom truck within the hour.

“It was like all the pieces came together,” said Ms. Bellincampi. “All the right people on the right group text with all the right skills.”

Up in the tree, Mr. Dupon could see that the nest — a large and looming structure, about eight feet across — was damaged but not dismantled. He decided to have a go at fixing it, and returned to the ground to gather sticks from the fallen nest, along with some wire fencing and lumber.

“I’m not an osprey, so it wasn’t perfect like they liked, but I rebuilt the nest,” Mr. Dupon said.

Home again. — Suzan Bellincampi

“He was like Uncle Osprey,” Ms. Bellincampi said with a laugh.

After the nest renovations, Mr. Dupon brought the birds back up in pet cages, while mother osprey continued to circle the area, occasionally swooping down to keep an eye on her chicks.

“It went very smoothly,” Mr. Dupon said. “The birds were very calm.”

Shortly after Mr. Dupon and Ms. Bellincampi left the scene, Ms. Anderson reported that both the mother and father ospreys had returned and were rebuilding and adjusting the nest to their liking.

Thanks to bird rescue and rehabilitation efforts on the Vineyard, the Island’s osprey population has rebounded over the last few decades. Still, Ms. Bellincampi expressed the importance of leaving rescue missions such as these to people with experience and, more importantly, a license.

“The goal is not to save everything,” she said. “It’s to be thoughtful and helpful where you can and make the connections and get professional advice.”