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I’m totally obsessed with ’s nest live cam in . They have 3 eggs this year. Last year they lost all the babies & they were devastated.


youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcu

Shadow typically is on the day shift & Jackie on night watch. Jackie just totally came & kicked shadow out.

’s initial pip has been confirmed today at 15:09. The pip is circled in the picture.

Jackie & Shadow’s previous chick Spirit pipped exactly 3 years ago to the date.

It may take a day or more for the chick to fully emerge from the shell.


friendsofbigbearvalley.org/eag

It looks like a beautiful, if chilly, morning in .

Shadow warms the eggs in a snow filled nest. It snowed all night. But the week ahead is forecast for warmer weather. The egg that pipped should hatch today or tomorrow, Wednesday at the latest.🤞

Woo Hoo!

2 eggs have now pipped!

Here’s a video of Jackie rolling the eggs just now, you can see somebody is coming!

h/t @fondoffawns

It looks to me like all 3 eggs have pipped. Here you can even see feathers & a leg(?) through the crack in the shell!

Oh my goodness!

beak & face sighting through the pip!

Jackie finally lets Shadow takeover for a while. Shadow usually does the day shift while Jackie takes night. They clearly have a heightened awareness of what seems like impending hatching. They are checking on & rolling the eggs a lot more frequently & Shadow has been hanging around very close by. Jackie has occasionally called to him & he’s there in a second or two.

Check out Jackie’s 7 foot wing span as she takes off.

Jackie just took a break to eat the fish Shadow had brought her & we got a glimpse of 2 little faces & beaks & one even gave out a little cry! So cool. Jackie just finished eating & successfully ousted Shadow.

Apologizies for the orientation switch — I quickly switch back to landscape just in time to see baby chirp.

Here’s a good long look at the peeking & chirping through the pips in the shells. I’m a little worried about the third egg, but it’s possible it will hatch later. Jackie laid each egg singly & 3 days apart from each other. So it could be the last egg laid.

Chick1 hatched 3/3 23:26! Chick2 hatched 3/4 4:29!

It was on the night vision cam, so pretty difficult to see, but yay!!!

Shadow is on watch now, & he’s keeping them nice & warm tucked beneath him, but here’s a little look at the . Shadow sweetly tucks the remaining unhatched egg between the 2 before settling back down.

Here’s a much better look at the . One is already innately opening its little beak for a feeding, didn’t have anything, but stroked the little one with his beak.

Feeding!

Jackie just succeeded in feeding some fish to one of the new chicks. The whole time I was rooting for the other chick to get some nibbles.

I love , but he’s just not as good at the whole feeding thing as .

Video: Eaglets, with wide open beaks, are ready for a feeding. Shadow, belatedly realizes it, but the chicks have tired themselves out, so when he tries to give them some bits of fish, they’ve exhausted themselves. - I do think one of the eaglets got a little nibblet.

Proving my point, returns to the nest, bloodied beak & claws, prey in claw, & successfully feeds both !!

First feeding of eaglet #2!

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returns to the nest, bloodied beak & claws, prey in claw, & successfully feeds both !!

First feeding of eaglet #2

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(Sorry for delay, LOTS of issues uploading media cc: @mastodonmigration @stux)

These two are a crack up. Here they are grabbing each other’s beaks. They’re so absorbed in each other it took a while before they realized Jackie was trying to feed them.

Cold & snowing tonight & tomorrow in , CA. will need to keeps those babies warm & tucked in.

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Cold & snowing tonight & tomorrow in , CA. will need to keeps those babies warm & tucked in.

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Still snowing in , CA.

Here’s checking in on the eaglets in the nest’s snow bowl.

He even treats them (& us) to a few silly snorts.

The third egg has pipped!!!!

In the video you can see the unhatched eaglet moving around through the pip!

Yeesh, & you thought your kids were messy eaters.

Both Momma & Papa pitching in, though I’m not entirely sure Shadow is “helping” per se. 🤣🥶

Time for another &

Here is Shadow doing a great job getting both chicks fed. You can also see the 3rd eaglet making progress on the pip in its shell 💕🦅
You can hear Jackie return at the end with a fresh coot.

This is some impressive . Jackie takes off & ~15 seconds later Shadow arrives. Nice.

Nonilex

It is Friday, after another geopolitical week of , & driven by ’s . As such, I may be guilty of endeavoring to cleanse both my heart/mind/timeline.

And because I am not involved in any primary beauty, here is another video.

[Last year at this time I posted hourly (click) updates. Thankfully–for them–none have need rescuing yet]

3 has arrived! Again it was overnight, so night vision cam made it difficult to see. Here is a glimpse of the newly hatched chick + an early morning feeding.

Great look at ’s 3 .

They so resemble funny little muppets / miniature Ostriches with Slinky toy necks.

Adorable.

Also, every time Shadow does a feeding, “Papa can you hear me?” from Yentl plays in my head.

Sadly, it seems that one of ’s has died.

From the blog:

“We are sad to let everyone know that 1 of Jackie & Shadow’s chicks did not make it through the severe winter storm that brought over 2' of snow to the area. The chick’s passing happened some time after all 3 were observed together getting fed at 6pm on 3/13. We do not know what happened or why it passed.…We do not know which chick it was because they were very close in size.…”


docs.google.com/document/u/0/d

@Nonilex My heart is full for them

I think being an eagle parent is harder than being a human parent, from crouching over the eggs without ceasing for months in the cold of winter to feeding and still protecting from the cold with their bodies. It's a miracle we have eagles 💕

@Nonilex Phew. I had been sweating that last one, despite your perfectly reasonable explanation. Of course things being what they are, days feel like weeks.

Edit: I get it, eaglet; I’d think twice about joining this rat race.

@vaughnsc

I was worried too, also in spite of my perfectly reasonable explanation.

Late last night there was a point when the eaglet had mostly hatched but its head was still stuck in the egg shell, in addition to laughing, I too thought, “I get it.”

@Nonilex I am so pleased that the 3rd egg has hatched. Jackie & Shadow had a rough couple of years before this trying to have a family. It is so nice they have succeeded this year. Hoping all 3 make it through these early few weeks. I remember with Spirit he/she had both Jackie & Shadow hopping. I can only imagine how busy they are going to be providing for 3!

@Nonilex

Aww. the third one hatched! So adorable!

@Nonilex My 👸🏼 was really bummed to see that they lost one of their eaglets overnight.