Crack seen in second egg of eagles Liberty and Justice

WASHINGTON - The second of two eagle eggs has "pipped" as we are are awaiting another little eaglet of Liberty and Justice to hatch.

Eaglet ECC4 pipped Sunday morning and may hatch late Sunday or Monday. That egg was laid on Feb 11. It can take the eaglet up to 48 hours to break through the thin eggshell once it is ready to hatch.

The eaglet, temporarily named ECC3, was laid on February 7 hatched at around 7 a.m. Saturday morning, after a pip was spotted in one of the eggs Friday morning.

Eagles Liberty and Justice, are nesting 110 feet above the Metropolitan Police Department Training Academy in Southeast D.C.

The eagles have been nesting in an oak tree at the police academy in Southeast D.C. since 2004. They have been laying one to two eggs every year here ever since.

Last year, an eaglet named Spirit hatched in mid-March after Liberty and Justice laid two eggs at their nest. Unfortunately, the second egg was non-viable and did not hatch.

The Earth Conservation Corps has set up a live web camera placed in Liberty and Justice's nest that is about 110 feet in the air. You can watch them on EagleCam.org or in the video player below:

Since 1994, the Earth Conservation Corps has been working to bring bald eagles back to Washington D.C. after the birds had not been spotted in the city since 1946.

For more information about the organization, go to EarthConservationCorps.org.