Baby Bald Eagles Hatch In Avon Lake [Video]

AVON LAKE, OH — Two of the three eggs in a nest near an Avon Lake elementary school hatched between Friday morning and Friday night. The third egg has a tiny hole and appears set to hatch soon as well. Luckily, the Avon Lake Schools have a 24-hour video stream of the nest.

The nest is near Redwood Elementary in Avon Lake. Approximately half a dozen or so baby eagles have been hatched in the nest over the past three years. Adult eagles, named Stars & Stripes by the students at Redwood, have parented each set of eggs.

Eagles usually lay eggs in groupings of about two to three. The eggs are laid two to three days apart. That means more eggs could be coming this week.

Eggs take between 36 and 38 days to hatch. That means there could be baby eagles during the first week of April.

There is a live stream of the nest near Redwood that is available at all times, so the eaglets can be seen coming out of their shells and learning to fly.

Two eggs have hatched healthy baby eagles each of the past two years. Stars and Stripes are pretty consistent on when they like to lay new eggs. In both 2017 and 2016, eggs were laid during the last week of February.

Photo from Avon Lake Schools