So the eagle chick’s development progresses. Learning to know wings and body, to use the beak – what the parents do the eaglet matches.

 

The adults shelter the offspring from the midday sun, the weather is beautiful and getting hardened is necessary.

 

Linda laid her first egg in late winter, on March 13, and the second egg was in the nest on March 16. The white-tailed eagles must have started their brooding then. In those sunny days there were 18 degrees of cold in early mornings. The incubation period was still 35 days until the hatching  of the chicks started. Linda laid a last egg on the night of March 20. The chirps of the hatched chick is audible even in windy weather.

 

Väinameri (Straits Sea) is ice-free, fish is being brought to...

 

 

 

Sulev has carefully brought withered grass for bedding in the nest, quite difficult now with the snow cover, but simply necessary in the frosty weather.

 

A quiet family debate goes on in the video about where the fetched sticks would best fit in...