{"id":119950,"date":"2026-02-21T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119950\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:24:12","slug":"u-s-steel-bald-eagles-welcome-first-egg-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119950\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Steel Bald Eagles welcome first egg of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2026 is the seventh season for the eagles&#8217; nest at the U.S. Steel Irvin Plant, and Irvin and Stella are the second couple to inhabit the nest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Irvin and Stella welcomed their first egg of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ussteel2026egg.png#.png\" alt=\"ussteel2026egg.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The first egg of 2026 for Irvin and Stella!<\/p>\n<p>                U.S. Steel\/PixCams<\/p>\n<p>Should the egg be viable, U.S. Steel says that it could hatch in as little as 35 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Irvin and Stella hatched and raised their eighth eaglet, appropriately named &#8220;Ocho.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last season, a new camera was installed with an overhead view of the nest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dDIfhPXn_-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">which you can check out here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Irvin and Stella aren&#8217;t the only Pittsburgh eagles on egg watch. The Glen Hazel nest is also awaiting the first eggs of 2026, and you can keep an eye on them on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yPq9aNukckQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">live camera at this link<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The year 2026 is the seventh season for the eagles&#8217; nest at the U.S. Steel Irvin Plant, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44030,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-119950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bald-eagle","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}