Jackie and Shadow<\/a>, the bonded birds that have captivated a worldwide audience over the last several years via an around-the-clock feed delivered by a nest-close camera managed by the nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley.<\/p>\nThe duo’s devoted fans recognize late January as “Egg Watch” time, the moment on the calendar when Jackie generally lays her first egg.<\/p>\n
That happy event occurred Jan. 23, 2026 at 4:32:24 in the afternoon, following Jackie displaying signs of active egg-laying behaviors (sometimes referred to as “tea-kettling,” due to the low-whistling sounds the eagle makes).<\/p>\n
In the past, Jackie has laid her second egg three days after the first within the same general afternoon window, down to the minute, or nearly. It’s a feathery fact that has kept bird watchers rapt in years gone by.<\/p>\n
So you can bet that Jan. 26 was circled on many calendars after the first egg arrived Jan. 23. <\/p>\n
The sweet arrival wasn’t quite to the minute, but Jackie laid her second egg a little after 5 p.m., following some kettle-like whistles and feather-fluffing, another sign that an egg is imminent.<\/p>\n
She did provide a quick peek at both eggs sitting together in the deep, well-constructed egg bowl, but soon return to incubating her brood.<\/p>\n
The incubation period for a bald eagle runs around 35 days, give or take, though as is often said on the eagle-watching sites “the birds are in charge.”<\/p>\n
The question on many minds may now be this: Will another egg grace our eagle-obsessed worlds in just another three days? The bald eagles have had three-egg clutches before, so there is a possibility. <\/p>\n
Keep your talons pointed at the eagle nest and keep your hopes high as as the Jeffrey pine tree where the famous nest is snugly located.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to Know Jackie and Shadow are the world-famous bald eagles of Big Bear Lake Friends of Big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[150180,18,19,17,3618,133,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-305649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-big-bear","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-nature","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115965513132530241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}