{"id":155600,"date":"2026-04-02T18:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155600\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:35:18","slug":"eaglet-hatches-in-pittsburghs-beloved-bald-eagle-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155600\/","title":{"rendered":"Eaglet hatches in Pittsburgh&#8217;s beloved bald eagle nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh&#8217;s beloved bald eagles have hatched their first egg of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The egg hatched on Thursday morning in the nest in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Glen Hazel neighborhood. The eagles laid their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/glen-hazel-eagles-first-egg\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first egg<\/a>\u00a0of the season on Feb. 24. There&#8217;s a second egg in the nest that could hatch soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The couple, formerly called the Hays eagles, moved across the river after a storm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburghs-cherished-hays-bald-eagles-nest-taken-down-during-tuesdays-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">blew down their nest<\/a> in 2024. There was speculation about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/will-pittsburgh-hays-bald-eagles-rebuild-nest\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whether the eagles would rebuild<\/a>\u00a0after the storm, but the 2025 season came and went with no eggs. Then the Hays eagles were spotted across the river in Glen Hazel in a new nest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/glen-hays-eaglet.png#.png\" alt=\"glen-hays-eaglet.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Pittsburgh&#8217;s beloved bald eagles have hatched their first egg of the 2026 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo: PixCams)<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s not the first eaglet in the Glen Hazel nest \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/hays-bald-eagles-new-nest-eaglets\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two chicks<\/a>\u00a0were spotted last season \u2014 it is the first egg in the nest since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburgh-hays-bald-eagles-livestream-glen-hazel\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a camera was installed<\/a>, allowing people to watch the eagles again, continuing a tradition that began in 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The last time there was a camera on the nest in 2024, the eagle pair had only laid one egg, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburgh-hays-bald-eagle-nest-egg-breaks\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it cracked<\/a>, failing to hatch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the eagles in the nest at U.S. Steel&#8217;s Irvin Plant in West Mifflin already have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/video-eaglet-hatching-pittsburgh-nest\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two eaglets<\/a>\u00a0in their nest, and it&#8217;s possible a third one might hatch. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/us-steel-eaglet-ocho-fledges\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ocho<\/a>\u00a0was the only one of the three eggs in the nest to hatch.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/us-steel-eaglet-ocho-fledges\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ocho accidentally fledged<\/a>\u00a0in June when he was practicing his flying and fell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Viewers can keep up with both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/hays-bald-eagle-cam\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Glen Hazel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/us-steel-bald-eagle-cam\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Steel eagles<\/a> on 24\/7 livestreams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh&#8217;s beloved bald eagles have hatched their first egg of the season.\u00a0 The egg hatched on Thursday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44030,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-155600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-bald-eagle","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155600","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=155600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}