Dad M15 feeding 2-day-old E19 (front/lower on screen) and day-old E20 at
Southwest Florida Bald eagle nest.
E19 left/back, E20 right/front.
Mom Harriet feeding now, E19 left and E20 right.
Incoming beak bonk! The eaglets are getting started on all the normal eaglet behaviors, and sibling rivalry is one of them. There's plenty of food, but a bit of squabbling is instinctual.
E19 with a feather in their beak. Not from pecking at E20, though; E19 had a piece of fish stuck to their back, and Harriet picked it up and fed it to E19. I think the piece took a detour to the nest floor somewhere along the way, though, and that feather is from an earlier bird prey, since it looks like a pennaceous feather rather than the floofy natal down that's all the feather covering these guys have for now.
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