{"id":497950,"date":"2026-03-01T18:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497950\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:36:21","slug":"big-bear-bald-eagle-jackie-lays-another-egg-after-losing-initial-clutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497950\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bear bald eagle Jackie lays another egg after losing initial clutch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Bear bald eagles have another clutch of eggs after losing their initial set earlier this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fourth egg of the season comes just a few days after Southern California&#8217;s favorite bald eagle couple, Jackie and Shadow, laid their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/big-bear-bald-eagles-jackie-and-shadow-third-egg-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">third egg<\/a>. The couple lost their initial clutch in late January after ravens raided their\u00a0<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">nest<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jackie&#8217;s latest egg came just before 6 p.m. on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/jackie-lays-another-egg.png#.png\" alt=\"jackie-lays-another-egg.png \" height=\"321\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Jackie lays her fourth egg of the season.<\/p>\n<p>                Friends of Big Bear Valley<\/p>\n<p>After losing their first set, Friends of Big Bear Valley said it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/big-bear-bald-eagles-jackie-and-shadow-lose-freshly-laid-eggs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">possible for the couple<\/a> to have another clutch before the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ravens interceding early like this may help that actually,&#8221; Friends of Big Bear Valley wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Friends of Big Bear Valley is a nonprofit group that operates the area&#8217;s eagle cams. Wildlife activist Sandy Steers helped launch the organization&#8217;s livestream cameras, which provided a look into the daily life of the area&#8217;s bald eagles in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Steers died earlier this month. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/big-bear-wildlife-eagle-activist-sandy-steers-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">organization<\/a> vowed to keep its mission of protecting Big Bear&#8217;s wildlife and their habitat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, Sandy wanted us to keep going and move forward and continue the things she worked so hard to start and do,&#8221; said Jenny Voisard, media manager for the nonprofit. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Big Bear bald eagles have another clutch of eggs after losing their initial set earlier this season.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-497950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}