The large and iconic American bald eagle has been brought back from the brink of extinction. Only about 50 percent of bald eagle eggs hatch. Ravens breached the eggs in March, but revealed no obvious signs of development inside. The two then began to leave them unattended. In January 2023, Jackie laid eggs and spent weeks incubating them. In that time, Jackie and Shadow have laid five eggs that have produced eggs. This nest camera was installed in 2015 by Friends of Big Bear Valley and documents breeding successes and failures every season. Adult eagles have about 7,000 waterproof feathers that should help keep the chicks warm if they hatch in the storm. Because of the storm, it is possible that the hatching will happen off camera, as Jackie or Shadow will sit on the nest to keep them protected from the cold and wet weather. Another winter storm is barreling towards the region, with a winter storm watch posted for Big Bear Lake for the evening of Friday March 1 through the afternoon of Sunday March 3. The weather is also adding to the excitement and anticipation. March 1 officially marks 36 days since the first egg was laid and Jackie’s eggs have previously piped at 38 and 39 days. It can teach us to just breathe and enjoy the process instead of focusing on the result.” “Even when there’s a pip, it’s going to take at least a day-sometimes longer-for the chick to hatch. “The pip is when there’s a visible bump or crack in the eggshell that we can see,” biologist and Friends of Big Bear Valley executive director Sandy Steers told the Los Angeles Times. Biologists monitoring the situation are watching for a “pip.” According to the nonprofit, a three-egg clutch like this is rare for bald eagles and is a first for Jackie. The nest is about five feet across and five feet deep and offers beautiful lake and mountain views. Incubating duties have been shared with their father, Shadow, who has also supplied Jackie with plenty of fish. She sat there keeping those eggs warm for 61 hours and 58 minutes without a single break. According to the nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley, she sat on the eggs for over two and a half days when the region was hit with a snowstorm. It would remain the band's only genuine country chart hit, and went on to win a Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Group.The eggs were laid in late January by a bald eagle named Jackie. 2 on Billboard's all-genre Hot 100 chart and No. Released as the second single from One of These Nights in August of 1975, "Lyin' Eyes" became a huge crossover hit for the Eagles, reaching No. "I helped out with the verses and perhaps with the melody. "Glenn’s pretty much responsible for that track and for the title, the choruses," he told Cameron Crowe in the liner notes to the Very Best of the Eagles. Henley credits Frey with the bulk of the songwriting for "Lyin' Eyes." I think songwriting is a lot like pushing a boulder up a hill." "Lyrics just kept coming out, and that’s not always the way songs get written. "I don’t want to say it wrote itself, but once we started working on it, there were no sticking points," Frey recalls. Henley and Frey were living together at that time in a Beverly Hills home once owned by early movie star Dorothy Lamour, and they returned to the house to write the song. It's a perfect example of the stellar song craftsmanship and musical and vocal arrangements that made the Eagles one of the most successful groups of the rock era, and as Frey explains, it came together relatively easily. The song tells the story of a lonely young woman who married a wealthy older man for security, and finds herself conducting an illicit affair to experience the passion she's missing. "We all started laughing and one of the other guys commented, ‘Look at her, she can’t even hide those lyin’ eyes!’ Immediately, we all began grabbing for cocktail napkins to write down lyrics to go with that great observation." "One night we were drinking in a bar when I spotted this stunning young woman two steps behind her was a much older, fat, rich guy," Frey says in the Hell Freezes Over concert DVD (quote via Ultimate Cassic Rock). "Lyin' Eyes" was one of the strongest songwriting collaborations between Eagles mainstays Glenn Frey and Don Henley, inspired by a random observation one of the band members made one night at a popular Los Angeles watering hole called Dan Tana's.
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