# Watch Bald Eagle eggs hatch
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 30, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573 "2011-03-30T22:38:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/1 "2011-03-30T22:38:21Z")
Live webcam [here](http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles). The eggs are supposed to hatch today or tomorrow. I’ve been checking in every hour or two all day. Mama Eagle (I assume it’s Mama) has been restless recently. She was moving around and I could see three eggs about 30 minutes ago. Scroll down the page for lots of info.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/2 "2011-03-30T23:02:25Z")
About 50 miles from my house.
Being near the Mississippi, I’ve seen about as many Bald Eagles as Robins lately
Brian
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### Author:  [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/3 "2011-03-30T23:11:16Z")
When I lived in Indiana, I used to take a weekend trip to Keokuk, IA every January to see the eagles. They congregate near the open water below the dam(s) on the Mississippi- as I’m sure you know, N9IWP.
It was not unusual to see 200 eagles in a day, and 20 or so in one tree.
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### Author:  [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/4 "2011-03-31T00:10:14Z")
Thank you.
They just had a nice close up of the eggs. The middle one looks like it has a small crack?
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### Author:  [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/5 "2011-03-31T00:13:08Z")
I’m playing my CD’s as I browse here. _Detroit City_ by Bobby Bare is playing. Just as the video on that eagle cam zoomed in providing a nice closeup of the side of the eagle’s head w/eye and beak, my music was playing the deadpan speaking part of the lyrics:
“‘Cause you know, I took a freight train north to Detroit city,
And after all these years I find I’ve been wastin’ my time…”
Hearing a bald eagle say this in voiceover is an experience not to be missed.
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### Author:  [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/6 "2011-03-31T00:32:12Z")
Thanks, nice find. I’m a little hesitant to get too engrossed, though, because last time I watched something like this, the eggs were stolen by a predator bird. ☹
But I’ll tune in again; hopefully this story will turn out better. By the way, where are you getting the information that the eggs are supposed to hatch soon? I’m not finding that part.
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### Author:  [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/7 "2011-03-31T00:44:53Z")
> [@DooWahDiddy](#):
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> Thanks, nice find. I’m a little hesitant to get too engrossed, though, because last time I watched something like this, the eggs were stolen by a predator bird. ☹
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> But I’ll tune in again; hopefully this story will turn out better. By the way, where are you getting the information that the eggs are supposed to hatch soon? I’m not finding that part.
On the [raptorresource webcam page](http://www.raptorresource.org/falcon_cams/index.html) , they say the first egg was laid on Feb. 23 and is due to hatch on April 1. I actually got the link from my niece and she said they were due today or tomorrow. If you scroll down to the Q&A below the webcam, they give last year’s dates for when the eggs were laid and when they hatched. Very close to this year’s dates, so all three should be hatching within the next week.
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### Author:  [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/8 "2011-03-31T01:16:28Z")
There appears to be light shining on the nest. Could that be right? Wouldn’t it bother the parent?
Where is the other parent? They don’t hunt at night, do they?
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/9 "2011-03-31T01:19:43Z")
The current image is what appears to be a fully grown, dead eagle.
😕
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### Author:  [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/10 "2011-03-31T01:27:18Z")
I think it’s an infrared light, which the bird can’t see. I haven’t seen the other parent make an appearance yet, but I just started watching earlier today.
Kyla, I’m guessing that the eagle is sleeping or resting (or pining for the fjords). It does move its head a bit now and then.
Edit: And j66, I thought I saw a crack in one of the eggs earlier as well.
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### Author:  [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/11 "2011-03-31T01:28:43Z")
Damnit! On preview, I see I’ve been scooped on the “pining for the fjords” joke!
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### Author:  [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/12 "2011-03-31T01:35:01Z")
HA ha!
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### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/13 "2011-03-31T01:55:39Z")
Neat. Aww, momma’s sleepin’.
I have the day off tomorrow and I have a bad head cold. (which means I’ll be on the couch all day probably) I’ll be keeping this tabbed in my browser, thanks!
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### Author:  [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/14 "2011-03-31T01:59:23Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#):
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> Damnit! On preview, I see I’ve been scooped on the “pining for the fjords” joke!
Same here! I have been waiting for years for the opportunity to use that joke! Only to be finally beaten to the punch on a message board called “the straight dope” by someone who calls themselves **Bumbershoot**. ☹
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### Author:  [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/15 "2011-03-31T02:05:40Z")
Again I say “HA ha!”
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### Author:  [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/16 "2011-03-31T02:26:24Z")
Actually, a very cool name. (not the name “straight dope”, but Bumbershoot) Also very cool thread, all jokes aside. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/17 "2011-03-31T02:33:55Z")
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/18 "2011-03-31T03:01:20Z")
Sleeping eagle lies
In a tree, upon her nest
Little eaglet grows
In a shell beneath her breast
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### Author:  [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/19 "2011-03-31T14:22:31Z")
I did some calculatin’ based on last year’s dates. Egg #1 and egg #2 hatched in 37 days last year, egg #3 was 35 days. Based on a 37 day incubation period, this year egg #1 should hatch on April 1, egg #2 should hatch on April 4 and egg #3 should hatch on April 8.
When I said “today or tomorrow” in the OP, I was just repeating the info I got when my niece sent me the link. I don’t know where she got her information. At any rate, we should see a whole lotta hatchin’ goin’ on over the next several days!
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-bald-eagle-eggs-hatch/576573/20 "2011-03-31T16:11:08Z")
Thank you for posting this… very cool watching!
I think it’s Daddy Eagle on the nest right now and he sure is doing a lot of rearranging of the twigs!
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