Pennsylvania

Second Eaglet Hatches, Let The Games Begin!

A second bald eagle egg has hatched in a central Pennsylvania nest watched by thousands of people on live-streaming video.

The hatchling Wednesday morning came a day after the first eaglet arrived in a nest in York County's Codorus State Park.

A Pennsylvania Game Commission biologist tells the York Daily Record the sibling eagles will compete fiercely for food and could end up harming each other. Statistics show only about half of hatched eagles ever leave the nest.

The eaglets won't be ready to fly on their own until late June or early July.

The game commission installed a live-streaming ``eagle cam'' focused on the nest in December. It says more than 640,000 people have watched the live stream. Many of them check in daily.

 

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