Continuous Shift Changes in Harsh Wind — Jackie & Shadow Never Let the Eggs Get Cold | FOBBV 2026 скачать в хорошем качестве

Continuous Shift Changes in Harsh Wind — Jackie & Shadow Never Let the Eggs Get Cold | FOBBV 2026

Original live video courtesy of FOBBV https://www.friendsofbigbearvalley.org. The opinions presented on this channel may not reflect the opinions of FOBBV Big Bear Valley threw everything at Jackie and Shadow today. 🥚 Wind that bent the pine branches and pulled at every feather. An intruder that kept coming back — testing, circling, refusing to leave. And through all of it Jackie and Shadow just kept going — shifting, switching, covering those precious Clutch #2 eggs through every gust and every flyby without a single gap in warmth. This is not one dramatic moment. This is hours of quiet, relentless devotion in conditions that would test any nesting pair. Every shift change in that wind meant one eagle exposing itself to the cold while the other rushed to cover the eggs. Every intruder pass meant breaking from incubation focus to track the threat without abandoning position. Jackie and Shadow did both — over and over — together. They did not leave. They did not fail. They did not let those eggs get cold for a single second on one of the hardest days this nest has seen this season. Whatever is inside those eggs is worth every bit of this. 💛🥚 🥚 CLUTCH #2 — EGG WATCH 2026 Egg #1 laid: February 24, 2026 Egg #2 laid: February 27, 2026 Estimated hatch: Late March – Early April 2026 (Big Bear's ~7,100 ft altitude = 37–40 day incubation) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 DID YOU KNOW? — INCUBATING IN HARSH WIND ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Bald Eagles nesting at Big Bear's elevation of 7,100 feet face weather conditions that flatland eagles never encounter. Harsh wind is one of the most demanding challenges for an incubating pair — not just physically taxing for the sitting eagle but genuinely threatening to egg temperature during shift changes. When wind is strong, the brief gap between one eagle standing and the other settling can allow cold air to reach the eggs faster than in calm conditions. Jackie and Shadow instinctively shorten their transition time in bad weather — you will notice shift changes on days like today are quicker, more urgent, with less ceremony than on calm sunny mornings. The sitting eagle also adopts a lower, more compressed posture in high wind — pressing down harder over the eggs, using their body as a windbreak as much as a heat source. The feathers you see being blown and ruffled are doing exactly what they are designed to do — trapping warm air against the eggs even as the wind tries to pull it away. Jackie and Shadow have weathered every season Big Bear has thrown at them from this nest since 2016. Today was just another day they refused to lose. 🦅 #JackieAndShadow #FOBBV #BigBearEagles #JackieShadowWindStorm #JackieShadow2026 #FOBBVNestCam #JackieShadowShiftChange #EggsInWind #BigBearBaldEagles #JackieShadowClutch2 #FOBBVEagleCam #JackieShadowStrong