Jackie and Shadow, Big Bear’s beloved nesting eagle pair, have welcomed their first egg of 2025.
For days, fans of the eagles have following a live feed from their nest overlooking Big Bear Lake, monitoring as Jackie, the female, and Shadow, the male, prepared their home for their new arrival.
Shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, Jackie settled in the nest and began making the tea-kettle like sound that is associated with egg-laying. At 5:06 p.m., the whistling ended, Jackie rose and a single egg was visible, according to the live stream of the nest available on the Friends of Big Bear Valley nest cam.
For the past several years, the nest trained on the tree overlooking Big Bear Lake has captured the goings-on of Jackie and Shadow. The pair have hundreds of thousands of followers and subscribers on social media who follow along as the eagles welcome their eggs each winter.
In 2024, Jackie laid her first three-egg clutch, though the eggs did not hatch. It’s been nearly three years since one of Jackie’s offspring has survived. Her most recent offspring, Spirit, hatched in March 2022.
Pip watch — looking for signs of the newest egg hatching — begins 35 days from now.