NCTC Eagle Nest: Camera 2

At the National Conservation Training Center near Shepherdstown, West Virginia, a pair of bald eagles is starting again in a familiar tree. Camera 2 looks in on the lower nest they built in the same sycamore after a windstorm on April 19, 2025, tore down the big upper nest that had towered over the NCTC campus for 22 years. The adults survived that storm, but their three eaglets were lost. The new nest sits about 15 feet below the original site.

This camera offers a second, close way to follow what came next. You can watch the pair shape and maintain the lower nest, take up the old seasonal work of incubation and feeding, and use a tree that already holds a long memory of eagle family life. The setting is a training campus for conservation, which makes the stream feel especially apt: a living lesson in resilience, unfolding in real time among the branches.

Quiet stretches are common, and they matter. Wind in the sycamore, a change in light, and the simple presence of an adult on the nest are part of the story, not a pause in it.

The stream is provided by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Stay with Camera 2 and you will see a famous nest site writing its next chapter.