Overview
- Friends of Big Bear Valley began Pip Watch on Tuesday after the pair’s two eggs reached about 35 and 32 days of incubation.
- Pipping starts when a chick pierces the inner membrane with an egg tooth and later cracks the shell, and the full hatch can take up to 48 hours.
- The nest camera streams live around the clock on the group’s YouTube channel, and the nonprofit will post any confirmed pip on its recap and social pages.
- FOBBV urges patience and warns against the “Pip Watch Itch,” since specks of dirt or stuck feathers can look like cracks to eager viewers.
- The eagles lost an earlier clutch to ravens in January but successfully raised Sunny and Gizmo last season, and typical hatch timing for this pair runs about 38 to 40 days.