Watch DC Eagle Cam Live as Adorable Chick Explores the Nest

WASHINGTON, DC — The first of two eaglets high up in the nest above the Metropolitan Police Department in Southeast has just hatched, and you can watch the live feed of the nest as mama Liberty keeps her warm in the freezing temperatures and papa Justice hunts for food.

The live feed is embedded below. The eaglet emerged from the egg on Wednesday, and the Earth Conservation Corps -- which is hosting the feed -- expects the second one to hatch any day now.

Once both hatch, ECC will announce the names of the two eaglets based on the public's votes on submitted names.

"Liberty and Justice are a pair of bald eagles who have raised young for eleven years in a nest one hundred ten feet up an oak tree at the Metropolitan Police Academy in SE, Washington, DC," EagleCam.org states. "Liberty, the female, has primary responsibility for incubating her eggs and caring for the young chicks (once they hatch!). Justice, the male, has the crucial job of catching fish and bringing them for his mate and hatchlings."

Watch the first chick emerge from its egg here.

The site describes the eagles as an "urban wildlife success story," as pollution had driven bald eagles from their last D.C. nest in 1946.

"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 states. "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 ECC