{"id":42128,"date":"2026-04-05T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/two-baby-eaglets-are-born-to-big-bears-jackie-and-shadow\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:08:28","slug":"two-baby-eaglets-are-born-to-big-bears-jackie-and-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/two-baby-eaglets-are-born-to-big-bears-jackie-and-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Two baby eaglets are born to Big Bear&#8217;s Jackie and Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>It&#8217;s an Easter Sunday to remember for Big Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow, who welcomed a pair of eagles this weekend in front of 2.5 million social media followers.<\/p>\n<p>The first chick hatched at 11:33 p.m. late Saturday, while the second hatched at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, according to Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit group that maintains the pair&#8217;s webcam.<\/p>\n<p>The cam has followed Jackie and Shadow, who have been mating since 2018, and has made the birds celebrities around the world and regular fixtures of morning TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>This livestream is believed to be the most viewed of any nature cam on YouTube all year long.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jenny Voisard, media manager for Friends of Big Bear Valley, both children will be named by third-grade students at a school in Big Bear.<\/p>\n<p>Observers on Friday noticed what appeared to be a hole or crack in the eggshell. The nonprofit said it usually takes 24 to 48 hours for the eggs to hatch after the first pup. By Friday morning, a little bit of shell could be seen on the top of the egg.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage posted by the nonprofit shows a close-up of the broken shell in the nest as winds blow and an eagle guards it.<\/p>\n<p>By Saturday, the first chick had poked its head out of the shell. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=926332340316651\">Friends of Big Bear Valley noted in a Facebook post<\/a> That a bird is not considered hatched until it is completely free from the shell. On Saturday, viewers saw what looked like a pip in the second egg.<\/p>\n<p>By Sunday both were born and looked healthy. <\/p>\n<p>Webcam viewers will have a short window to catch the two eagles before they leave the nest. They take 10 to 14 weeks to develop, Voisard said.<\/p>\n<p>The birth is a triumph for Jackie and Shadow, who lost a clutch in late January. When the pair were left unattended for several hours, ravens ate two of their eggs.<\/p>\n<p>The couple went back to work and in late February Jackie laid two new eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the couple welcomed two daughters \u2013 Gizmo and Sunny \u2013 who later separated.<\/p>\n<p><i>Times staff writer <\/i><i>Lila Seidman<\/i><i>    Contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an Easter Sunday to remember for Big Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow, who welcomed a pair of eagles this weekend in front of 2.5 million social media followers. The first chick hatched at 11:33 p.m. late Saturday, while the second hatched at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, according to Friends of Big Bear Valley, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1506,9925,872,6333,16359,7448,4396],"class_list":["post-42128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bible-verse","tag-baby","tag-bears","tag-big","tag-born","tag-eaglets","tag-jackie","tag-shadow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42133,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42128\/revisions\/42133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}