I would think it was an ordinary scene to have a pair of Changeable Hawk-Eagles looking rather cosy in the nest, till a puzzling bout took over.
Firstly, nothing extraordinary when what seemed to be the male took off to the upper branch, leaving the other to practically bury its head into the nest, although what was in the nest could not be detected at all from my spot.
And then the series of moments had me raking my brain for a possible avian exchange when an indignant-looking male decided to descend but looked like was totally ignored by its mate!
The male then simply took off to the next branch and eventually fled followed by the female.
And stranger still, the nest looked abandoned thereafter without any of them returning since this incident. Could a young left alone in the nest had tragically perished, and so the squabble?!
Retracing to earlier moments when I was first alerted to prolonged cries of these birds, I had hurried on upon spotting one flying into the nest (but unaware then that one was already there), perhaps it's not wrong to assume that there was a chick in the nest but did not make it (going by the flustered looks of these birds).
Looking like a blame-exchange going on with the dominant male.
If I could be an insect on the tree bark!!!
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