DC Eagle Cam 2017: Egg Spotted in Bald Eagle Nest

WASHINGTON, DC — The bald eagle couple that lives near the Metropolitan Police Department in D.C. appears to have laid an egg on the live nest cam.

Bald eagles Liberty and Justice have been tending to the nest for weeks now, and it appears they're ready to return to being parents. A picture posted by D.C. police appears to show an egg in the nest. You can watch the live stream of the nest here.

"Liberty, the female, has primary responsibility for incubating her eggs and caring for the young chicks (once they hatch!)," states the official Eagle Cam website. "Justice, the male, has the crucial job of catching fish and bringing them for his mate and hatchlings."

At MPD's Academy, our bald eagles Liberty and Justice have some BIG news! #EggWatch2017 Live nestcam @EarthCC https://t.co/52PbfeqEHF pic.twitter.com/GBX38W0iZt
— DC Police Department (@DCPoliceDept) February 6, 2017

Bald eagles abandoned their last D.C. nest all the way back in 1946 due to pollution, the site notes, but the species is making a comeback in the city in recent years.

"In 1994, the teenage volunteers of the Earth Conservation Corps launched a bold experiment to try to spur the return of the bald eagle as a nesting resident of our Nation's Capital," the site adds. "Under U.S. Fish and Wildlife permits, the Corps translocated 16 eaglets from nests in Wisconsin to an artificial "hack box" at the U.S. National Arboretum. After being raised for six weeks at the Arboretum the juvenile eagles were released into the skies over Washington. Four eaglets were released every spring from 1994 to 1998. Between the eagle restoration efforts the youth of the Earth Conservation Corps galvanized the entire city in their mission to restore the eagles' Anacostia River habitat."

Image via Metropolitan Police Department