The viral bald eagle couple, Bella and Scout, nesting in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, roughly 75 miles from Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Conservation Training Center (NCTC), had a clutch of eggs in mid-February, and they are now starting to hatch!
The clutch, which consists of two eggs this season, is the first new set of eggs to be hatched at the bald eagle couple’s new nest after their previous nest, which had been in use for decades, tragically collapsed during a sudden wind storm last spring.
How to watch the eggs hatch in real time
Right now, only the first of the two eggs has started to hatch, a process that could take all day!
The second egg likely won’t start to hatch until this weekend or early next week, since it was a few days younger than the first egg.
You can monitor the eggs in real time on the nest’s live stream, where you can watch Bella and Scout taking turns incubating the eggs and watch the baby eaglets hatch!
There are three unique camera angles of the nest with a live stream that you can also find on YouTube:
Camera 1
From Camera 1, you can see a wide angle of the tree where Bella and Scout have their nest.
You can watch them fly in and out of frame as they take turns incubating their two eggs.
Camera 2
From Camera 2, you get a head-on view of the nest!
This camera is perfect for viewing either the bald eagles’ approach to the nest or watching them do their usual “shift changes” throughout the day as they take turns incubating the eggs.
Camera 3
Camera 3 offers the ideal bird-eye-view (no pun intended) of the nest!
It gives you the best possible view of the two incubating eggs whenever mom and dad take a shift change for who is staying at the nest and who goes out to hunt.
