PIP WATCH DAY 8 💕 JACKIE & SHADOW MORNING HIGHLIGHTS & ZOOM ON EGGS 💕❄️ FOBBV CAM 3.7.24

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Today is day 8 of pip watch for Jackie & Shadows eggs. The footage begins with Jackie incubating the eggs all night long in the snow. She kept them covered, warm and protected - occasionally getting up to shake the snow from her wings.

Shadow arrives at the nest bright and early and Jackie gets up for their first incubation shift change. Shadow stayed on the eggs for three hours incubation them! He gets up and we have a zoom on the eggs. You can now see the dark spot on the egg no longer has that tiny feather stuck on it. You can also see it is not an indentation - it is just a stain on the egg shell. The first egg is no longer viable (day 42) but we still are hopeful that the two other remaining eggs will hatch. We should be seeing a pip in the second egg any time now as this is Day 39. The third egg is at day 36 today.

Jackie arrives with fluff for the nest and she convinces Shadow to get up by nudging him till he got up off the eggs! She settles down and takes over incubation. Thank you for watching!

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

Egg #1 laid 1/25/24 at 16:55. Egg#2 laid 1/28/24 at 13:59. Egg#3 laid 1/31/24 at 17:58

Standard incubation period is 35 days. Here at this nest, the eggs hatch 38/39 days. Pip watch will begin on Feb 29th! Thank you for watching! #BigBearLake #baldeagles

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