This shot was taken on a very warm April Fools’ Day, and you can see that the adult in the nest is panting with her beak open and tongue out. Also note that she is lying with her back a little higher than in previous reports.

Since Easter I’ve been checking every day for signs of hatching and becoming a little concerned as to whether there would be any eaglets.

I left the area still not convinced there was a hatching, vowing to return every day until I could confirm something, one way or the other.

As of April 2, I can confirm that she probably had at least one hatchling based on an observation. I'm sorry I have no pictures to show the following actions, but things happened so fast that I couldn't get my scope and camera set up in time, especially because it was toward evening and lighting was pretty bad. Fortunately my wife was with me and relayed what I was missing while setting up my gear.

We approached by car and saw nothing in the nest. My heart sank. Then suddenly, the female got up from low in the nest, raised her head and chittered. She got up, moved to the edge and started eating from some food cached in the nest. She suddenly took off toward the river, just as the male came into the tower with a good-sized fish.

He fed on some of the fish on the tower for a few moments. Then, grasping the fish remains in his talons, circled the tower a few times and came into the nest. He proceeded to tear off a tiny piece from the fish, turned his head toward the center of the nest, lowered it, then raised it again, showing an empty beak. If that wasn't chick-feeding behavior, then nothing is. (The above is true and not an April Fools’ joke.)