Pair of PA bald eagles lay first eggs of 2021

HANOVER, Pa. (WJAC) — A pair of Pennsylvania bald eagles are officially parenting, says Raptor Ecology Specialist Zoey Greenburg.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has been partnering with HDOnTAP and Comcast Business to provide a live look at the Hanover eagles' nest in York County.

You can check out the livestream for yourself by clicking here.

According to Greenburg, the first egg was laid just before 4 p.m. Feb 2.

The second egg was laid on Friday at 5:14 p.m.

Greenburg says the early arrival of the eggs are still in the safe-zone despite concerns of the recent wintry weather Pennsylvania has seen.

“Although watching the mother eagle incubate in the snow is understandably concerning, these experienced adults have contended with much worse. If snowstorms were detrimental to the eggs, the eagles would have to wait until later in the spring to lay,” Greenburg wrote in the Hanover Eagle Blog.

Greenburg says the eagles will roll their eggs every hour or two to prevent the embryo from getting stuck to the inside of the egg shell.

A bald eagle egg takes about 35 days to hatch, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The bald eagle population continues to see a resurgence in Pennsylvania.

As the population continues to increase, so do the chances of negative interactions with humans, the game commission says.

The presence of lead in the environment is one of the major threats to the bald eagle, but people can help reduce this threat by choosing to use non-lead ammunition while hunting or by burying carcasses and gut piles so they’re not consumed by the scavenging birds.

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