Pip, pip, hooray!

Two bald eagles have hatched in Sauces Canyon on Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park. According to the NPS, this is the first successful hatch for this nest after three years of attempts by theadult bald eagle pair.

The first chick hatched March 12 and the second chick “pipped outof the egg shell” on March 14, the NPS said (in the tenor ofa proud parent).

Eagles vanished from the islands by the 1960s, victims of the chemical DDT. They were reintroduced in 2005 (a male) and 2006...