Fans can now submit name ideas for Jackie and Shadow's 2 new eaglets in Big Bear

BIG BEAR, Calif. (KABC) -- It's clip to assistance sanction the 2 caller eaglets welcomed by Big Bear's celebrated bald eagles, Jackie and Shadow, earlier this month! Friends of Big Bear Valley has officially launched its eaglet naming contest.

The 2 eaglets broke done their shells implicit Easter weekend. Now, they're eating and increasing rapidly successful the nest.

Friends of Big Bear Valley, which owns the live cameras adjacent the eagles' nest, is accepting entries on its website done April 26.

Fans of the beloved bald eagle mates tin wage donations to the nonprofit successful speech for sanction submissions. Then, a machine programme volition randomly gully a database of finalists. Continuing with tradition, Big Bear 3rd graders volition past ballot connected the winning names.

This is simply a bittersweet clip for Friends of Big Bear Valley. The hatching of the eaglets happened 2 months aft the idiosyncratic credited with the motorboat of the eagle cam, Sandy Steers, passed away.

"I deliberation she's successful the nest, due to the fact that that's truly wherever she wanted to go, and wanted to see," Jenny Voisard with Friends of Big Bear Valley told Eyewitness News successful an interrogation earlier this month.

Voisard said the eaglet naming contention was Sandy's favourite tradition.

"You tin taxable a sanction oregon two, oregon nevertheless galore that you want, and past we volition bash a random drawing, and we volition instrumentality a database of finalists to Big Bear 3rd graders, and they volition prime the last names. And that was 1 of Sandy's top joys was being capable to bash that," she said.

The palmy hatchings came aft a setback this winter, erstwhile Jackie and Shadow's first clutch of 2 eggs this play was destroyed by ravens.

This clip past year, Jackie and Shadow raised 2 eaglets, Sunny and Gizmo. After fans from each implicit watched them turn up, the 2 young eagles yet fledged the nest.