{"id":89779,"date":"2025-12-19T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89779\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:30:07","slug":"swfl-welcomes-latest-eaglet-hatchling-e26-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89779\/","title":{"rendered":"SWFL welcomes latest eaglet hatchling, E26 | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heartwarming moment unfolded in Southwest Florida as an eagle family welcomed a new member.<\/p>\n<p>The proud parents, known as M-15 and F-23, celebrated the hatching of their eaglet, E-26, in North Fort Myers Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The story began on Tuesday when cameras captured the first small crack in the egg. The tiny line signaled that a hatch was imminent. Experts explained that it usually takes one or two days for the process to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday evening, just before 6 p.m., the crack grew much larger. Viewers even saw a small wing moving inside the egg. Around 8 p.m., the eagerly anticipated moment finally arrived as the eaglet emerged fully from the shell.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"600921193_1310088274493005_222427805316094604_n.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Southwest Florida Eagle Cam<\/p>\n<p>Now, one eaglet rests safely in the nest, while one more egg still sits nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Facebook, Southwest Florida Eagle Cam said, &#8220;A tiny miracle. A powerful reminder of how incredible nature truly is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/dickpritchettrealestate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SWFL Eagle Cam here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heartwarming moment unfolded in Southwest Florida as an eagle family welcomed a new member. The proud parents,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,48508,24440,1521],"class_list":["post-89779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-e26","tag-eagle","tag-southwest-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}