May 27, 2026 · 27 min · 11 segments
A celebrity eagle couple takes the world by storm in this week's episode. Jackie and Shadow have millions of fans who have followed their love story from the beginning. But their habitat is being…
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It's all amazing to me, but I'm very happy that Jackie and Shadow are making people feel good and teaching people about eagles and nature.
That's Sandy Stiers.
She's been the executive director for Friends of Big Bear Valley for over 20 years.
We focus on protecting and conserving the special habitats and special species that we have in our valley, um, many of which that don't exist anywhere else in the world.
For years, Sandy looked forward to winter because that's when the bald eagles came.
Valley only had wintering bald eagles because where they were nesting was further north in Idaho and even Canada.
Because the lakes up there freeze over, they would come south for the winter because bald eagles eat off the water.
And so if they're by a lake that gets frozen, there's, there's no food basically, the fish and the ducks.
The, and the ducks fly south, so they basically followed their food source and migrated in the winter, and Big Bear usually doesn't freeze over completely, so this is one of the places that they learned to come.
And that was about 30 years ago.
We used to get 35 wintering bald eagles that would come and spend the winter around the lake and then head north in the spring for their nesting.
But since bald eagles have been expanding, there was one that came in about 2009 and started staying all year, and that bald eagle eventually got a mate and settled down and created the first nest ever here, and that couple stayed all year.
It's all amazing to me, but I'm very happy that Jackie and Shadow are making people feel good and teaching people about eagles and nature.
That's Sandy Stiers.
She's been the executive director for Friends of Big Bear Valley for over 20 years.
We focus on protecting and conserving the special habitats and special species that we have in our valley, um, many of which that don't exist anywhere else in the world.
For years, Sandy looked forward to winter because that's when the bald eagles came.
Valley only had wintering bald eagles because where they were nesting was further north in Idaho and even Canada.
Because the lakes up there freeze over, they would come south for the winter because bald eagles eat off the water.
And so if they're by a lake that gets frozen, there's, there's no food basically, the fish and the ducks.
The, and the ducks fly south, so they basically followed their food source and migrated in the winter, and Big Bear usually doesn't freeze over completely, so this is one of the places that they learned to come.
And that was about 30 years ago.
We used to get 35 wintering bald eagles that would come and spend the winter around the lake and then head north in the spring for their nesting.
But since bald eagles have been expanding, there was one that came in about 2009 and started staying all year, and that bald eagle eventually got a mate and settled down and created the first nest ever here, and that couple stayed all year.
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