One of two eggs in the bald eagle nest at the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C., hatched on Monday, April 30. We were there on Saturday, looking at the nest high above us in a tulip poplar tree.

An American Eagle Foundation video of the happy event is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF3RaeQBxKI (you’ll have to copy and paste the URL as I can’t link to YouTube here), and the AEF live eagle cam is at http://www.dceaglecam.org

Spring is a time for eaglets at the arboretum, posted earlier: