Credit: credit Friends of Big Bear Valley

A pair of Bald eagles are tending a nest with two eggs in the snow at Big Bear Lake in California.

On Thursday morning, the larger male eagle returned to the nest, put a stick on the female's tail feathers and moments later the female flew away, leaving the male to tend to the eggs.

Friends of Big Bear Valley, which operates a webcam near the nest, say the eggs are expected to hatch in midMarch.

The nest is in a pine tree about 145 feet (44 meters) in the air.