{"id":373634,"date":"2026-04-03T21:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373634\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:44:10","slug":"big-bear-bald-eagles-jackie-and-shadow-see-first-pip-of-2026-hatching-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373634\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow see first pip of 2026 hatching season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, April 3, 2026 8:37PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Pip watch begins as Big Bear bald eagles care for 2 eggs in nest\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BIG BEAR, Calif.  (KABC) &#8212; We may soon have a new eaglet in Big Bear! One of the eggs belonging to bald eagle couple Jackie and Shadow has started to hatch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/friendsofbigbearvalley.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley<\/a>, which operates the cameras overlooking the nest, little chirps were heard coming from chick on Thursday, indicating that it was able to break the internal membrane of the egg and took its first breath of air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Friday, a slight crack in the egg&#8217;s shell could be seen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bald eagle egg starts hatching in Big Bear\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18835559_040326-kabc-big-bear-eagle.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It can take 24 to 48 hours for the chick to fully hatch after breaking through the shell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The beloved bald eagle couple also have a second egg in their nest. Both were laid in February.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, April 3, 2026 8:37PM BIG BEAR, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; We may soon have a new eaglet in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[179281,85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-373634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-179281","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373634","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=373634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}