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

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#JackieAndShadow’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.

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

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.🤞

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Woo Hoo!

2 eggs have now pipped!

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

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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!

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Oh my goodness!

#Eaglet beak & face sighting through the pip!

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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.

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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.

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Here’s a good long look at the #eaglets 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.

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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 #eaglets. Shadow sweetly tucks the remaining unhatched egg between the 2 before settling back down.

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

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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.

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

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.

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

First feeding of eaglet #2!

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

First feeding of eaglet #2

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

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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.

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

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