Peep peep! Two baby bald eagles hatch in Channel Islands National Park

Breeding bald eagles nest on the Channel Islands. Breeding bald eagles nest on the Channel Islands. Photo: NPS/Courtesy Photo: NPS/Courtesy Image 1 of / 7 Caption Close Peep peep! Two baby bald eagles hatch in Channel Islands National Park 1 / 7 Back to Gallery

Great news for nature lovers: After three years of trying, two bald eagles are the proud parents of a pair of chicks.

Park officials at Channel Islands National Park say the first chick hatched on Saturday and its sibling hatched on Monday. The parents are both transplants, born at our very own San Francisco Zoo Avian Conservation Center. The eagles are part of a program to repopulate the area that was decimated by DDT contamination in the 1960s.

Today, there are 19 breeding pairs across the Channel Islands.

A live webcam of the nest is available via explore.org:

On Wednesday morning, the mother bald eagle could be seen feeding its chicks. The miracle of life!