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Both bald eagle chicks are out of their eggs in the bald eagle nest near Codorus State Park at Hanover, York County.

(PA GAME COMMISSION)

Both bald eagle eggs in the York County bald eagle nest on the live stream from the Pennsylvania Game Commission's nest cam have hatched.

The second eaglet, which began its efforts to break out of its egg Tuesday afternoon, was completely free of the egg by sunrise Wednesday morning.

Both the new eaglet and its older, larger sibling, which broke out of its eggs from late Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning, were looking active as their parents switched nest-sitting duties shortly after sunrise.

Our report as the first egg was hatching.

After an sunrise changing of the guard on the bald eagle nest in York County, a parent bird prepares to take over nest-sitting duties.

The hatchings were a few days later than had been expected on Saturday, March 21, which was 35 days from the time the first egg was laid at 5:55 p.m. Feb. 14. That would have been the average time from laying to hatching for a bald eagle egg.

The second egg was laid at 4:44 p.m. Feb. 17.

However, the weekend and most of Monday passed without any signs life from the eggs. Late Monday, some observers thought they saw a pip begin to appear on the one egg. A pip is the first opening a chick makes in its eggshell as it begins to hatch.

Some also thought they noticed changes in the behavior of the adult birds over the weekend that they interpreted as revealing something about the hoped-for hatching, but that was simply anecdotal evidence.

The entire drama has been watched by eagle fanatics around the world through the live, online stream from a web camera the Pennsylvania Game Commission and partners set up at the bald eagle nest near Codorus State Park in Hanover, York County.

The feed can be viewed through a bald eagle web cam page on the commission's website.

The nest cam is a joint project of the Game Commission, HDOnTap and Comcast Business. Viewers. The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Codorus State Park, Friends of Codorus State Park, Swam Electric and Sunbelt Rentals also helped in establishing the nest cam.