00:00from high in the california nest a pair of bald eagle parents jackie and shadow have welcomed two
00:06eaglets i said that eaglets yeah and a third egg is yet to hatch and the whole event is being
00:14streamed live joining us is sandy steers executive director of the friends of big bear valley the
00:19non-profit that owns and operates the live feed so excited to have you on for today and sandy what's
00:26the latest is it true is there some movement in the third egg is the delay a cause for concern at
00:32all no that yes there is movement in the third egg and it it widened the hole got much bigger
00:39overnight and no there's no concern it usually takes from the time we first see a pip between
00:46a day and three days before that chick works its way out of the shell well if you had to give
00:52jackie and shadow a grade what grade would it be in the care of the eagles so far and do they
00:59share parenting parenting duties parenting duties well i'd give them an a plus plus and yes they
01:07share uh parental duties absolutely and shadow actually fights to get more of his turn but he
01:16also brings lots of fish jackie's also brought food and they take turns on the nest a lot of
01:22times recently since the chicks have hatched they've both been there kind of hanging out for
01:26an hour and that's not usual so they're both excited about all of this oh my gosh it's too
01:33sweet i can't take it all right there's been some snowfall so how does the cold weather change
01:37how jackie and shadow are able to protect their two newborns well they have seven over 7 000
01:44waterproof feathers each one of them sticks together with down underneath that so they're
01:49plenty warm and their body temperature is 105 so they can keep those chicks warm just by covering
01:55them up with all that insulation that they have and um and they're very good at doing that keeping
02:02them very tucked under and dry and warm and fed all right really quickly uh can you describe the
02:08excitement around this event that has been streamed all over the world uh yeah it's amazing
02:14to me we've had you know tens of thousands of people watching the youtube i think it was over
02:2080 some thousand watching youtube yesterday as soon as there was a pip and um it's it's beyond
02:27imagination how many people are excited and i i love that that people are getting heartfelt
02:33connections with nature all right well we have both named children in our lives are there any
02:38names for the two eagles and how are those chosen we we will be having a contest that people can
02:45submit names uh online and then we will draw randomly uh about 30 and the third graders in
02:53big bear will get to select for the final names because they study eagles this during their third
02:59grade sandy steers executive director of the friends of big bear valley thanks for joining us
03:05and we'll be watching thank you all right before we go we dug up our own eagle cam
03:11and the accurate archives see if this eagle sounds familiar thank you i wonder if this camera is on
03:18hmm test check one two three four hey who's that is that my reflection hey i'm good looking
03:27it's a smart eagle or a smart falcon i remember this years ago stay with us
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