Tentative friendliness

Seaglets SE28 (younger, back) and SE27 (older, front) at Sydney White-bellied Sea-eagle cam got along well today. Here are some cute screenshots of that (includes views of prey).

SE27 sleeping, SE28 up. Both ate well at breakfast and second breakfast, with no rivalry.

SE28 expresses an opinion. Not sure if SE27 agrees, but no arguments were given. With food back to being abundant, SE27 seems to be back to being quite patient and calm with its* younger sibling, and SE28 to frequently speaking (or honking, as it were) its mind.

Both playing with a stick.

SE27 scritches SE28's head feathers and toes.

SE27 front, SE28 back.

SE27 stretches a wing over SE28 while they sleep. SE28 wakes up to preen itself, and ends up preening SE27's wing, too. Does a double take, then continues even as SE27 pulls the wing away

SE27 front, SE28 back.

SE28 preening SE27 a bit more.

SE27.

SE28 toe stretch.

Flop.

SE27 stretches and flaps its wings, and accidentally hits SE28 in the face with a wing.

SE28 gives critique.

No aggression from SE27 in response. They just both started preening themselves.

SE27, SE28.

Food arrives, and SE28 rushes in to be fed first. SE27 joins in, but no rivalry, though SE28 is still wary.

Big bites for small eaglet.

Headscritches for small eaglet.

SE28 eats first at supper, while SE27 waits.

SE27 steps forward to eat when SE28 is done and ready to sleep. Indeed quite the change from last week.

Lady preening her babies (currently SE28).

*I keep alternating between singular "they" (since we don't know their sexes) and "it" for the eaglets. In Finnish animals are always called "it", but in English that sometimes feels like the wrong pronoun, since it's so common in this language to call at least pet animals with the same pronouns as humans (well, in colloquial Finnish, humans, too, are "it", but formally there's a clear distinction of pronoun use between humans and everything else). Sometimes referring to animals with more humanlike pronouns feels too anthropomorphizing because of what I'm used to with my first language. It's confusing.