Hopes tied to Single Bald Eagle Egg
A live video camera is recording a pair of bald eagles nesting in Hays round the clock for second straight year. As per officials, this time it is completely a different story.
In 2014, 'Eagle Cam' watchers were keeping an eye on the nesting pair in Hays as they raised their three healthy eaglets. This past Saturday, it was seen that the male eagle was removing the shells of a broken egg from this year's nest.
The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania said that the egg might have cracked when the mother eagle was moving it with its beak. Audubon Executive Director Jim Bonner, at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve, said that it can happen, as sometimes eggs turn out to be infertile or lost.
"Last year was almost unprecedented in everything going right. The fact that they laid three eggs, they incubated them, and fought off a raccoon and other intruders, that all three hatched, that they were all healthy", said Bonner.
In fact, they were made capable enough to find food and finally, they all fledged. But nothing of such sort happened this time and what exactly went wrong is not known for now. But one egg is still left and all hopes on it.
The Society does not keep all the eggs in one nest. In Harmar, property owned by the Audubon Society, has eagle parents that are sitting on at least one egg. In the case of the eggs in Lays, Bonner affirmed that incubation generally lasts for around 35 days for the eagles. Therefore, it can be said that there is still about one more week or so before hatching could be seen.