Eagles Altyn & Altynai 🦅 Quiet Affection on 1st egg’s birth day— Алтын и Алтынай, Солнечный Орлы

fulll clip here: 13 April 2022 (near Almetyevsk, Tatarstan, Russia): A passing moment of quiet affection for the expectant parents. Sliced out from the day the 1st egg was born, in the morning while busy working together making last minute preparations, before the first of their brood would enter the world (in egg-form at least). Now a little fluffy white eaglet clamouring for food over his younger sibling! Fortunately these new guys has very good, dependable parents, providing constant care & attention. Yet also protection, don’t forget! on constant vigil for intruders, or else shielding them from the cold, the strong winds & the rain & storms common to this area. Even working through snow, as still evident in the background here. (In a previous video by OrlanBeloxvost, a snow storm had buried the nest after all their hard work the preceding days). [link here, once found] I clipped this moment out -- incidentally, really -- while working on a longer-form tribute to the 1st egg’s hatching: Clipped simply because it touched me (previously only shared on VK in passing). But I know think that THIS clip is the best tribute I could come up with: finding this moment among the 22 hours of footage that day. This is the most tender moment I have wtinesed between the two after viewing what must be by now be many hundreds of hours of footage (maybe even a thousand or two). I have become very fond of them: how they work together & help each other in the best way eagles can, with their quiet dignity & diligence. I am sure they will pass this on to their latest brood also. I may make that tribute (& to the other two eggs) that I had planned, to release upon the 3rd’’s successful hatching. But upon remembering this one moment -- of less than a minute -- I feel now that it would be supplementary. Sourced from this live stream: VKontakte: @orlanbeloxvost “Гнездо Солнечного Орла/Могильника/Aquila heliaca/Eastern imperial eagle в Татарстане, Россия“ You-Tube: #солнечныйорел #aquilaheliaca #bird #eagle #wildlife #nature #birdbanding #дикаяприрода #природа #челны #елабуга #eaglelovers #birdwatching #live #imperialeagle #могильник #russianbirds #альметьевск #орланбелохвост #nizhnyayakama #nationalpark #нижняякама #национальныйпарк #нпнижняякама #гнездоналипе #стрим