High up in a pine tree in California’s Big Bear Valley, a pair of eagles guard their nest…and we can watch them live

A nesting pair of the protected birds have made their home in the Kansas City suburb. Blue Springs and the state conservation department have set up Missouri's only live feed for viewers to follow their journey to bird parenthood.

Big Bear’s famous baby eagles hatched last week. Their parents Jackie and Shadow had three successful eggs hatch for the first time since researchers began observing their nest. Thousands have watched the livestream from Friends of Big Bear Valley.

Elated beyond imagination.” That’s how Sandy Steers, executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley, says that she and the team of mostly volunteers are feeling after watching three eaglets hatch last week.

A pair of local bald eagles are looking after three new hatchlings in their nest above Big Bear lake, and an internet camera offers a real-time view of this young avian family. The Friends of the Big Bear Valley organization maintains the Big Bear Eagle Cam which year-round draws thousands of views of the life and times of Jackie and Shadow,