Bored at home? Need a home-school idea?

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has a series of videos of an eagle couple who last week hatched three eaglets in a St. Paul nest.

The hatching is significant because it’s the first brood caught on camera since 2017.

The EagleCam has been documenting the couple’s progress since November — their courtship, nest preparations and the laying of three eggs through rain, snow and wind.

The first egg hatched March 15, the second March 17 and the third March 19.

“Thursday wasn’t exactly a great day to be expecting a chick,” the DNR posted on its website and on it’s Minnesota Nongame Wildlife Program Facebook page. “It was rainy and — true to March’s reputation — very windy in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fortunately, our two eagles sit very tightly on their eggs. Over the past 35 days of incubation, we haven’t seen them ever leave the eggs for more than a few minutes at a time. What responsible parents!”

The camera isn’t just visual, it has sound as well. The listener can hear the two eagles “talking” to each other, the wind blowing, and tiny pips coming from the eggs indicating hatching time is near.

With a hi-def zoom feature, viewers can watch the mamma eagle lay the eggs and see the light gray fuzzy chicks’ heads bobbling in the nest.

When asked if the DNR has named the eagles, spokesman Harland Hiemstra said they prefer to keep the experience scientific.

“We don’t name the eagles because they’re wild animals and we do not want to contribute to the ‘Disneyfication’ of nature,” he said. “Sometimes in nature, individuals of a species don’t survive. Our focus is on species and populations, not individuals.”

With the eaglets out of their eggs, the parents have been kept busy finding food for their hungry brood.

“Our nervous and dedicated parents are learning the ropes,” the DNR posted. “They’ve been seen feeding the chicks together on multiple occasions and even feed each other from time to time.”

Those tuning in during the incubation period, might have found the footage pretty boring for a webcam video. But now that the chicks are up, there’s no shortage of action. It could be the perfect science supplement for parents tasked with doing school at home.

“Can you identify the prey items they bring to the nest?” the DNR posts. “This might give you a clue about the habitat that is near the nest.”

If nothing else, it’s educational entertainment and a guaranteed spirit-lifter during COVID-19 confinement.

“The EagleCam is a bit of sunshine in an otherwise dark time,” Hiemstra said. “It’s also something you can enjoy from home while practicing anti-social distancing.”