Thanks, Spaw. I've spent the last half hour watching and have saved it to my Favorites.

It strikes me that the nesting period is not the peaceful, out of time experience I'd imagined - to me they look eager to swap, and their calls to their absent mate are plaintive. :) They leave the egg unattended while encouraging the other to return but each time the egg has not been exposed more than a minute.

Right blustery weather there today.

Frogprince, I've always thought eagles' normal voices sound like rusty hinges. Not all that purty.