asteria wrote:Even if they were attacked by somebody, why sit on the branch, back to the nest and ignore the eggs??
I think it would have been dangerous for the eggs to stay on the nest if the parents were under attack by some intruder/s.
Supposedly there were other eagles which disturbed the LSPs. Under threat of fighting with an attacker, to protect the eggs from breaking, it was perhaps more usefull to not to stay on the nest at all and not even too near to it. It would have been the worst imaginable if the eggs would have been broken while fighting.
If a mother bird has chicks which can't fly yet is attacked, she prefers to leave the chicks alone, and tries to draw the intruder's attention to herself to save as many chicks to survive as possible (mother birds also can make believe to be wounded and weak..But they are ready to escape at any the time..etc)
I just specultaed again..
it's 10:50 and there is peace on the forest. One eagle is incubating.