Followers of the Minnesota DNR's popular eagle cam are pretty excited today.
After roughly 35 days of snowstorms, rain wind and everything else March in Minnesota can bring, the lone egg in the nest has hatched.
The DNR's Laurie Naumann, who operates the camera trained on the nest, says chicks are fast growers and need to be fed pretty much every hour.
"Fish is usually the first food because they can rip it up into tiny, tiny little bits, just tiny, little bits of almost liquid. And so he'll start bringing in way more fish than either of them can even eat. But you know, that's to keep both the female and the chick well fed."
Naman says the survival rate of eagle chicks is about 50 to 70%.
She says this year's male who is a new mate for the female has been doing a good job sharing nesting duties and providing food for his new family.