In Alaska, it lasts from late March to early April. Females lay one to three speckled off-white eggs, but usually two, once a year. In most eagle species, the forty days of incubation responsibilities are shared by both male and female, but it is the female who spends most of her time on the nest. When both parents brood, trading places on the nest can be a tense time. The only protection they have comes from their parents.
Eagles feed their young by shredding pieces of meat from their prey with their beaks.
At eleven weeks of age,the adult birds lure the eaglets to fly away from the nest with a piece of food in their beak to a nearby tree. At fifteen weeks of age, they leave the nest to find their own home range and nest. The bald eagle doesn't have any natural predators, so it can hunt its prey without fear of other animals. Although the full grown eagle has no natural predators to worry about, the chance of eagles' eggs, hatchlings, and year old eagles surviving is extremely low. An egg may not hatch because of many different factors.