“Sadly, these live-streamed bald eagle eggs likely won’t hatch
MAR 18, 2024‘Resilient’ parents Jackie and Shadow continue to incubate their eggs as snow falls in Big Bear Valley.
Though they’ve captivated the internet since late February, three eagle eggs in a nest in Southern California are unlikely to hatch. Parents Jakie and Shadow continue to take turns keeping the eggs warm, as snow dots their nest overlooking Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains.”
Sadly, these live-streamed bald eagle eggs likely won’t hatch | Popular Science
I check in on the live stream daily. The last 2 nesting seasons have been brutally cold. Huge snowfall each year.
Weather, altitude, and biology
“It could be that the temperatures we had during the incubation period, and when they were laid, were not that good….”
Yep. Could be! Persistent snow and cold are likely indicators that the long-promised global warming ‘tipping point’ has finally passed.
It could be that warm weather is way more beneficial than cool one
and that eagles falling for the warming scam will be in trouble.
😉
… sigh …
strengthen that which remains …
love watching Jackie and Shadow. So sad the eggs aren’t gonna make it.
It’s a fortunate thing that we never had cold and brutal winters in the past or there would be no eagles around:) Incidentally, I live in Connecticut and we’ve never had so many eagles around, and some nests in very unlikely and surprising locations.
I never saw bald eagles in New England until around 2010. Now they are quite common.
As a kid growing up in northern Manitoba in the 70s, our local lake always had one family of Bald eagles and one family of Golden eagles. Total of 4-6 eagles. Rarely did you see more than one eagle in a given day. Now it is common to be able to count 5-10 eagles at any one time in the sky over the lake. Probably 20+ total population which would be a 400% increase. I would not worry about the eagles.
I think that this is typical of what happens to every creature on Earth, even legal entities suffer from it. When the environment improves due to things like warmer weather, federal laws protecting it, etc. the creature’s population expands. When the environment swings toward adversity, then the population diminishes. Since the environment is cyclical, there will always be times when creatures expand into territories which are not sustainable for them over the long haul.
Climate change is a threat to Bald Eagles? Oh the humanity!
Quick question: how do Bald Eagles survive (nay, thrive) in Alaska? Hmm…
Cue the “Great & Powerful” ‘Climate Scientists’ to explain in 3, 2, 1…
(Crickets… crickets… and yet more crickets… don’t hold your breath…)