Baby Eagle Watch: Third Egg In Nest In Avon Lake

AVON LAKE, OH — A third eagle egg has been laid in a nest near Redwood Elementary. The school runs a 24-hour live stream that watches the nest. The first egg was laid during the last full week of February.

The nest has hatched half a dozen or so baby eagles 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