A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.
Yes, thank you for posting Frank. My boss will be amazed at how long I will be watching these amazing creatures. Especially when the scream and the volume on my computer is us. Fascinating.
Today’s LA Times: “It looks as though Big Bear’s world famous bald eagles, Jackie and Shadow, won’t be welcoming new eaglets anytime soon.
Thousands of watchers have been anxiously checking in on a live camera on YouTube, anticipating the hatching of two eggs that have been incubating for more than a month in a nest in a tree high above San Bernardino National Forest.
More than 17,000 people watched at one point as Jackie was covered in snow during this weekend’s winter storm, sitting still on the nest and bearing the cold to keep the two eggs warm.
But on Monday, Friends of Big Bear Valley confirmed what many fans and onlookers had feared after the eggs showed no sign of hatching more than 40 days after they were laid. The organization noted that most eagle eggs
3 Bear unlikely to hatch
“It appears now that Jackie and Shadow’s eggs are not going to hatch this time,” the organization, which runs the livestream camera, posted on its Face-book page Monday.
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A reader suggested we share the live cam at Big Bear’s eagle nest. Here it is (sorry, lost the comment).
WOW WOW WOW………….. how wonderful.thank you
Really incredible! Thanks for sharing.
Yes, thank you for posting Frank. My boss will be amazed at how long I will be watching these amazing creatures. Especially when the scream and the volume on my computer is us. Fascinating.
Today’s LA Times: “It looks as though Big Bear’s world famous bald eagles, Jackie and Shadow, won’t be welcoming new eaglets anytime soon.
Thousands of watchers have been anxiously checking in on a live camera on YouTube, anticipating the hatching of two eggs that have been incubating for more than a month in a nest in a tree high above San Bernardino National Forest.
More than 17,000 people watched at one point as Jackie was covered in snow during this weekend’s winter storm, sitting still on the nest and bearing the cold to keep the two eggs warm.
But on Monday, Friends of Big Bear Valley confirmed what many fans and onlookers had feared after the eggs showed no sign of hatching more than 40 days after they were laid. The organization noted that most eagle eggs
3 Bear unlikely to hatch
“It appears now that Jackie and Shadow’s eggs are not going to hatch this time,” the organization, which runs the livestream camera, posted on its Face-book page Monday.