{"id":379766,"date":"2026-06-29T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379766\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:19:59","slug":"big-bear-eagle-luna-takes-first-flight-from-nest-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379766\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bear eagle Luna takes first flight from nest \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Bear eaglet Luna has left the nest for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The young eagle took off at about 9:30 a.m. Monday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BigBearEagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friends of Big Bear Valley<\/a>. Video showed the drama-free fledge from the nest, which has been home since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/the-scene\/big-bear-bald-eagle-chicks-names-heartwarming-tribute\/3884362\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luna and sibling Sandy<\/a> hatched in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/big-bear-eagles-eggs-hatch-jackie-shadow\/3871521\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April<\/a>, and land near the top of another tree.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, Sandy appeared to slip from the edge of the nest onto a lower branch. About five minutes later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=waIJ-kVMZgc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> showed Sandy fly away from the branch.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear where Sandy landed, but FOBBV said in a Facebook post Monday that the sounds of distant vocals might be Sandy and mother Jackie.<\/p>\n<p>Young eagles typically develop the feathers and wing muscles needed to fly at about 13 weeks &#8212; or whenever they feel ready. In the past, the eagles have returned to the Big Bear nest, often to eat or sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Bear eaglet Luna has left the nest for the first time. The young eagle took off at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[713,48637,48,52,51,47,50,49,7662],"class_list":["post-379766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-animals-and-wildlife","tag-big-bear","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}