Child watch: Bald eagle couple Jackie and Shadow on the brink of count on chicks

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — It’s nearly time to see some child eaglets as “pip watch” is right here for Large Bear’s bald eagle couple.

Leap Day (Feb. 29) began the clock as any day now Jackie and Shadow’s three eggs might crack to disclose the chicks inside.

The bald eagle couple are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their new chicks, with three eggs within the nest this 12 months for the primary time ever.

The California Division of Fish and Wildlife says incubation lasts about 35 days. Leap Day marked 35 days for the primary egg, in keeping with the Associates of Large Bear Valley and Large Bear Eagle Nest Cam Fb web page, however famous it did have some delayed incubation earlier than the opposite eggs got here alongside.

The nonprofit says hatching usually takes round 1 to three days from the time it begins.

Jackie laid this 12 months’s eggs on Jan. 25, Jan. 28 and Jan. 31, so any day now we might see chicks emerge on the stay cam in Southern California’s Large Bear Valley.

Jackie and Shadow are not any strangers to infants, having laid eggs for the previous few years. Spirit, their eagle chick, stole the hearts of stay cam viewers all over the world in 2022. In 2023, the eagle couple laid eggs that didn’t make it. 

Learn extra concerning the historical past of bald eagles at Large Bear right here.

Associates of Large Bear Valley and Large Bear Eagle Nest Cam mentioned in a Fb replace this weekend that no pip is confirmed but, however Jackie and Shadow have been taking turns, generally stubbornly letting go, to maintain the eggs heat and dry with the snow and rain the previous few days within the space.

Watch all of the motion stay on the Large Bear Bald Eagle Nest Cam as we eagerly await the arrival of the child eagles.