The pictures are from a live cam.
The chicks have hatched but they are sleeping under the parent.
Hunder erupts.
The live cam is worth watching. It is in D.C.
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Feminist Philosophers 
Anne, thanks for posting this — really interesting viewing. I sometimes see a bald eagle on my drive up to the city — always a treat. And today I saw this in my local bookstore:
http://www.amazon.com/H-Is-Hawk-Helen-Macdonald/dp/0802123414
JT, that is an amazing book.
We have hawks in Galveston and on the way down there I also see them. They go get into groups and circle around in a way I find ominous. Watching the eagles via cams I am reminded of how red in beak and claw nature is apt to be.
Even thought I suspect it’s mostly (or at least somewhat) anthropomorphic projection, I can’t help but think that mother animals (even mother eagles) look very proud when they are with their babies.
MATT, I think that’s a lovely idea. Speaking as someone who has been a human mother, I see her as worried. (One eagle has black something on its head feathers; I think that’s the male.)
Matt, I visited Universidade Federal de Mina Gerais in Belo Horizonte in August, and on the fourth floor, home to the philosophy department, a family of vultures nested — they may be Griffons, but the chicks were beautifully fluffy. The proud parents were wonderfully tolerant of the academic community.