All eyes on the eagles’ nest! The eggs may hatch at any moment.

Three bald eagle chicks could soon pop out of eggs in a nest in the Southern California mountains. An online camera feed captures all the action. Viewers from all over join the “hatch watch.”

The mother eagle’s name is Jackie. She laid the eggs in late January. Other eagles built the nest. Jackie has used it since 2017.

A recent winter snow blanketed the nest. Jackie sat on the eggs for more than two and a half days straight. She waited patiently for 61 hours and 58 minutes. “This is the longest time she has ever stayed on the nest incubating her eggs without a break!” eagle watchers at Friends of Big Bear Valley say. That organization runs the cameras.

Since the storm, eagle dad Shadow has helped incubate the eggs. Biologists expected the eaglets to begin hatching last week. The process of chicks breaking out of their shells is also known as pipping. But so far, the camera hasn’t spotted any pipping.

Shadow was still keeping watch over the eggs and rolling them with his foot on Tuesday. Eagle parents turn each egg to keep its temperature even. That also helps keep the chick inside in the right position. God gave birds instinct to turn and incubate their eggs. Instinct is knowledge that isn’t taught or learned. It’s a part of God’s design.

American bald eagles made a big comeback. A few decades ago, they teetered on the brink of extinction. Then the pesticide DDT was banned in the 1970s. It caused some birds to lay eggs with thin, fragile shells. After DDT was removed from the food chain, eagles bounced back. Tiny new eaglets are evidence of the species’ success.

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions, the Lord alone guided him, no foreign god was with him.— Deuteronomy 32:11-12