Mar 21, 2015 3 min read

The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s bald eagle cam was highly successful over the past couple years and already drew nearly 650,000 views since going live earlier this year.

That web traffic to view the nest at Cordorus State Park near Hanover should only increase as the nesting pair of eagles have hatchlings.

The female eagle laid her first egg on Valentine’s Day. She laid a second egg Feb. 17.

The incubation period for bald eagle eggs is typically 35 days, which would mean the eggs were due to hatch Saturday.

To follow progress on Twitter, use the hashtag eggwatch.

Or, if you’d like a chance to possibly view the hatching or the eaglets, visit http://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/bald-eagle-live-cam.

The live camera, which gives a high definition view of the nest, is a joint project of Pennsylvania Game Commission, HDOnTap and Comcast Business.

Meanwhile, the nesting eagles in Hays, which also were the subject of an eagle cam, had one of their two eggs break last week. That nesting pair laid its eggs Feb. 17 and 21.

Their nest can be viewed at a number of different web sites, including http://www.aviary.org/BE-NestCam1.

• The Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen’s Club stayed within striking distance of first-place Frazier-Simplex two weeks ago with a narrow tiebreaker victory last week in a Pittsburgh and Suburban Rifle match.

Both teams scored 1,480, with Dormont-Mt. Lebanon winning via tiebreaker (off-hand shots), 486-485, to improve to 13-3. Frazier-Simplex fell to 15-2.

Tom Gerner fired a 299 for the winners, while Dean Trew (298), Amy Smith (296), Rick Janoski (295) and Dan Francis (292) rounded out the scoring.

John Husk and Zach Nicolella both shot 298 to lead Frazier-Simplex. Jim Mounts fired a 297, Tom Morley 294 and Morgan Duerr 292 in the losing effort.

Last week, Dormont-Mt. Lebanon improved to 14-3 with a 1,468-1,422 win over Green Valley.

Trew led the way with a 297, while Dan Francis had a 294, Benedict and Gerner 293 each and Fritz Hempelmann 291.

Frazier-Simplex improved to 16-2 with a 1,483-1,456 win over Irwin Post 228.

Nicolella fired a career-best 299, followed by a 298 from Husk, 296 from Morley and Zac Szabo and a 294 from Chris Thomas.

• A number of local youths were invited to participate in the Junior Olympic National Championships at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., in April.

All shot through Frazier-Simplex.

Cassidy Fairman fired a 566 at the Jerome Sportsman’s Club to qualify automatically. Receiving at-large bids were Tommy Welch, Chris Thomas, Matt Lovre, Rosebud Hensley and Luke Knollinger.

The women’s rifle portion of the event will take place April 18-23, with pistol to follow April 24-29. Men’s rifle is scheduled for April 30-May 6.

Outdoors Editor F. Dale Lolley can be reached at dlolley@observer-reporter.com