A bald eagle in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, is proving just how far moms will go to keep their babies safe. Even being buried up to her head in the snow won’t stop this eagle mom, known as Bella, from keeping her eggs warm.
Bella and her mate, Smitty, have returned to their nest 100 feet up in a large sycamore tree near the Potomac River every year since 2011 to raise their chicks.
“The eagles are amazingly good parents,” Randy Robinson, an instructional systems specialist for the National Conservation Training Center, said on Facebook Live. “They will sit on the eggs night and day, 24/7.”
While both parents take turns caring for the eggs, the female eagle can be found sitting on the nest 80 percent of the time, while the male typically does the hunting and fishing. Once the eagles lay their eggs, they have to endure all kinds of difficult conditions — from snow and hail to sleet and freezing rain. So even when a severe snowstorm rolls through, the mama eagle doesn’t budge.
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