[Guns N' Coffee]

https://www.sbsun.com/2026/04/05/jac...-this-weekend/

Jackie and Shadow, Big Bear Valley’s celebrity bald eagles, welcomed two chicks to the nest this holiday weekend.

The first eaglet was born on Saturday at 9:33 p.m. and the second at 8:30 a.m. on Easter morning. Both are looking healthy, Jenny Voisard, media and website manager of the Friends of Big Bear Valley, said on Sunday.

“It’s a very fun day and weekend for many, and they couldn’t have picked a more perfect time to say hello to the world,” she said.

Voisard said the hatching process is “arduous,” with only 50% of eggs having a chance of making it.

“They have to work itself through an inner membrane and then the outer cell,” she said. “And once they get through that, when they poke through that inner membrane, they take their first breath of air, and we can start to hear them chirp.

“And so we got to hear them chirp,” she said. “We heard them before we saw any indication of hatching.”

Eventually, the eaglets reach the outer shell, and it cracks.

It took 36 hours for the first chick to fully emerge from its shell on Saturday, the Friends group said.

“When we see the outer shell crack, then that’s when we know for sure that the chick has reached that inner and is working its way through the outer,” Voisard said. “And so it can take almost three days sometimes, but these little guys were pretty determined, and they got out pretty fast.”

Jackie and Shadow have been a “mated pair” since the fall of 2018. They have achieved social media fame worldwide and thousands watch them live via webcam livestreams.

Last season, three eagles hatched but only two survived. Tragedy struck in January when ravens damaged their eggs. But about a month later, Jackie laid two more eggs.

On Friday, it was announced on Facebook that “little chirps were coming from the chick,” and at “21:33:31 cam time (9:33 p.m.), chick 1 officially broke completely free from its egg!” a Facebook post from the Friends team announced.

“Until officially named, the eaglet will be referred to as Chick 1,” the post said. “Egg 2 which pipped this morning is making good progress and should soon join its sibling.”

Naming the new chicks will come in the future, according to the Friends team’s Facebook page.

“We have seen hundreds of requests and suggestions to name one of the chicks Sandy in honor of Sandy Steers, her years of tireless environmental work in the valley and her love for the eagles,” the Facebook post said.

But “Sandy would not want this.”

Steers, who was the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley, died on Feb. 11.

“Our process has always been to have a fundraiser naming contest (details coming soon), and the local 3rd graders vote on the final names, Voisard said. “This brought great joy to Sandy through the years, and we will honor her by continuing this tradition.”

The first webcam was installed in October 2015 on the branch where eagles Jackie and Shadow nest. A second camera was installed in 2021, on a nearby tree, for a wider view. Both cameras are 145 feet in the air and solar-powered.

[Mr.NoCredit]

There are lots of eagles where I live. The sound they make when flying over your head is incredible. They are enormous birds when adults.

[William May]

We only have Nazguls where I live. Boy, are they annoying!

[kellyhound]

Stunning view. If you want to relax and watch birds this is the right place.
That white structure in the distance next to that tree is the Big Bear Solar Observatory https://www.bbso.njit.edu/
and that round thing a marina.
Nest is around the grays peak trailhead. Location

[Guns N' Coffee]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...rnia-dead.html

From Nest to Deathbed, Jackie the Eagle Entranced California and Beyond
The bald eagle and her mate gained fame during the pandemic, as a livestream tracked their nesting attempts. She died while being treated for anemia.

A bald eagle whose loves and losses riveted millions via a livestream of her lifelong nest died in a California animal hospital on Monday.

The eagle, known as Jackie, gained worldwide fame during the Covid-19 pandemic, as a bored public became enraptured by her life in the rugged San Bernardino Mountains. Viewers tuned in to watch her soaring, nesting and squawking over a landscape that was suddenly far less filled with the affairs of human beings.

Jackie raised eaglets with two mates in the same nest where she was born in 2012, atop a 120-foot-tall Jeffrey pine in Big Bear Valley, a lakeside recreation area in Southern California.

Then last month, she fought off an apparent attack on the ground by other eagles, defending herself by rolling on her back and slashing at them with her talons.

She wasn’t injured, but she was unable to fly. Rescued by park workers, she was taken to the Ojai Raptor Center, a wildlife rehabilitation center hundreds of miles away in Ojai, Calif.

Jackie underwent extensive medical treatment there as fans tracked her plight on social media. The center’s staff found several underlying medical conditions, including kidney inflammation and severe anemia, that Jackie was unable to overcome.

Chris Eksteen, the center’s executive director, posted that Jackie had most likely been sick for some time.

Bill Bowerman, a professor of wildlife ecology and environmental toxicology at the University of Maryland, said it was likely that the young eagles seen attacking Jackie in a video were probably “hungry and thought that Jackie was sitting on the shoreline with a fish.”

They were likely unaware of her weakened condition, he said.

Jenny Voisard, a spokeswoman for Friends of Big Bear Valley, a nonprofit conservation group that operates the webcam trained on Jackie’s nest, agreed with that assessment. “They were just being eagles, and trying to take her fish and potentially territory,” she wrote in an email.

The raptor center announced Jackie’s death on Monday. “We know this news will be deeply felt by the many thousands of people around the world who have followed her journey, hoped alongside us, prayed for her, and supported the people caring for her,” the center said in a Facebook post.

“It has been an extraordinary privilege to care for her,” the center added.

Jackie hatched in the spring of 2012 and rose to fame in 2015, when a camera was installed on her parents’ nest, which she eventually took over along with her mate, Mr. B. In 2018, a new male, later named Shadow, arrived and pushed Mr. B out.

Fans watching the livestream weighed in as Jackie and Shadow attempted to start a family. Viewers mourned after some of Jackie’s eggs were determined non-viable and scavenged by ravens and celebrated the births of healthier offspring. Recent sightings of a younger female perching near Shadow created a flurry of tabloid-style speculation, but experts said it was unlikely that either eagle was looking for a new mate.

Last month, after a decades-long effort by conservationists to protect Jackie’s habitat from development, Friends of Big Bear Valley announced that it had received $10.5 million in donations, allowing the group to create a sanctuary for the eagles and other wildlife.

At the raptor center, which is about two hours northwest of Los Angeles, concerns and then condolences poured in via social media and the postal box on Monday.

“Every day I check the mail, there have been probably 50 letters for Jackie in there,” said Ethan Van Dusen, office manager for the neighboring Ojai Valley Land Conservancy, which shares the mailbox, shortly before news of the eagle’s death was posted.

“People are sending donations,” he said. “Someone sent salmon from Alaska. Someone sent Fiji water because they wanted her to drink water that was pure.”

[kellyhound]

damn

[AllegedlyHere]

Jackie was such a beautiful eagle. Now she’s flying with the angels.