Two eggs of a bald eagle laid last month in a Southern California nest monitored by a webcam are unlikely to hatch, experts said Monday.
Eagle mother Jackie delivered the first egg on January 11 and the second a few days later near the mountain community of Big Bear east of Los Angeles.
Jackie’s partner, a male bald eagle named Shadow, shared egg-warming duties during a series of snowstorms.
The Friends of Big Bear Valley group, which runs the popular live stream, said the eggs were almost two weeks past their expected hatch date.
“Now it looks like Jackie and Shadow’s eggs aren’t going to hatch this time. We can’t know exactly why: they may not have been fertilized or may have stopped growing at some point in the process for various conditions and reasons,” the group posted on Facebook.
More than 12,000 people watched the video on Monday afternoon. It showed an eagle in a snowy nest as the latest winter storm swept through the San Bernardino National Forest.