Golden Eagle has one nestling

I checked on the Golden Eagle nest today and saw a nestling with an adult. The nestling was in an upright position and moving around some so apparently it was already hatched when I first saw the adult 3 days ago. The adult was tearing up some food and feeding it ever so gently to it's fuzzy looking, in it's grayish white down, offspring. Golden Eagles are "altricial" which means they must be fed by the parents. It was really quite amazing to watch this large raptor apppear to tenderly offer small bits of food to the much smaller nestling. According to the Birds of North America males rarely feed the nestlings so this was probably the female.

The eagle focussed it's attention on tearing up the food and feeding the nestling until an Osprey that had been working the river nearby made some fairly close passes near the nest. I heard some calling that might have been the "skonk" call made by Golden Eagles when they are threatening.

I left to do an errand and when I returned about an hour later the eagle was again or still feeding the nestling. I got a photo that shows the nestling but need to do some editing before posting it.
SeEtta