Third bald eagle baby hatches at Iroquois refuge
Image taken from Pixcams: This picture shows a bald eagle feeding two chicks today. Three eaglets have recently hatched in this nest. One of the eaglets died on Monday after getting displaced in the nest.
BASOM – The third eaglet has hatched in a bald eagle nest at the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, 39 days after its mother laid the egg.
Many people have been following the progress through a nest cam. Click here to see a livestream made available by the Friends of the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge.
The third chick hatched late Tuesday night around midnight. For a while, the nest cam showed a broken shell with the chick nearly out. By early this morning there was an empty shell and with the fluffy eaglet next to its sibling.
The arrival of the eaglet was welcome news for the people following along through the nest cam. The first eaglet to hatch on April 1 sadly died on Monday when it was displaced in the nest by the mother’s foot.
