First eggs of the season

Schools (@avonlakeschools) tweeted just before 8 p.m. Friday Stars laid the second egg just after 3:30 p.m. Feb. 27.

The first egg of the season for Stars and Stripes, Avon Lake’s mating pair of bald eagles, came late afternoon on Feb. 24.

Stars, the female, laid her first egg of 2023 just after 4 p.m., according to eagle watchers on the Avon Lake Bald Eagles Nest Facebook page. Stripes is her male mate.

“We have an egg!” Avon Lake

The birds have a nest in a tree outside Redwood Elementary School. They are watched by number of cameras that broadcast live on YouTube.

Mating eagle pairs typically lay up to three eggs every year. In the Avon Lake nest, two out of three that were laid in 2022 hatched.

Three hatched in 2021, and two hatched in 2020. Students at Redwood Elementary School hold a naming contest for fledgling eaglets each year.

The livestream is available 24 hours a day at youtube.com/c/AvonLakeEagleCam/live.

Photographers are not permitted on or near school grounds from 7 a.m. to 4 pm. Monday through Friday. Visitors are also asked to respect the fencing and not approach the tree.