Footage captured from a boat off the Isle of Mull shows a "miracle" white-tailed eagle chick in flight, after it was nursed back to health by two unusually caring parents.
In an unprecedented display of extended eagle parenting, the two white-tailed parents skipped this year's breeding season to continue to tend to their year-old offspring.
Mull’s RSPB officer, Dave Sexton, who described the bird as a "miracle chick", said: “We normally think of eagles as ‘hard-wired’ and unemotional but clearly there might be another side to their nature."
The new footage, captured by wildlife photographer Gary Jones, shows a visible lump in its wing - probably a healed broken bone.
RSPB officer Dave spotted the juvenile this spring - alive and well and in a new nest in an area owned by North West Mull Community Woodland.
The fully-grown chick was being fed fish by its parents, caring behaviour that the eagle expert described as “unprecedented” for the birds.