{"id":256461,"date":"2026-01-25T05:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/256461\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T05:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:25:08","slug":"beloved-big-bear-eagle-couple-welcomes-first-egg-of-the-year-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/256461\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Big Bear eagle couple welcomes first egg of the year \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost exactly one year after laying her first egg of 2025, Jackie the bald eagle in Big Bear welcomed the first egg of 2026 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Live video from Friends of Big Bear Valley showed at around 4:22 p.m., Jackie, the female eagle, showed the signs of being in labor. <\/p>\n<p>About five minutes later, she stood up and laid her first egg at 4:32 p.m..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She did a great job and is not resting,&#8221; Friends of Big Bear Valley said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow, Jackie&#8217;s partner, stopped by a few minutes later and saw the egg, according to the group.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Jackie was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/the-scene\/pancaking-time-meaning-eggs-close-big-bear-eagle-nest\/3833811\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seen \u201cpancaking<\/a>&#8221; by lying flat in the nest bowl and getting it ready for incubation.<\/p>\n<p>Bald eagles mate year-round, but Jackie is fertile from January to April, according to FOBBV. January is typically when she begins to lay her eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Jackie and Shadow welcomed their first egg of 2025 on Jan. 22. The second and third eggs came a few days later on Jan. 25 and Jan. 28.<\/p>\n<p>While three eaglets hatched in March, only two, Sunny and Gizmo, survived and later fledged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost exactly one year after laying her first egg of 2025, Jackie the bald eagle in Big Bear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[8996,85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-256461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-big-bear","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}