r/JackieandShadow
The twins tracking a tiny visitor to the nest!
Daily Thread May 17, 2026
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Jackie & Shadow have sleep chortles
🔊 ⬆️
I’m tickled to watch Jackie chortling in her sleep and imagining shadow responding to her in his sleep 😂
I hope people realize when they use AI to write comments by jackie and shadow that it's terrible for the natural environment
People have their own agency so it's up to them if they want to use AI to make comments I guess but it seems to be a little bit contradictory or fans of the natural world that want to preserve the natural environment.
I have noticed an unsettling trend of people using obvious AI to make tribute comments about the birds or that sandy.
But I think it's worth pointing out that whatever you think about the ethics of AI in terms of plagiarizing other people's work, if you care about the environment and the natural resources that Jackie and Shadow need to survive, using AI to write tributes to the birds or to Sandy or the Big Bear, is terrible for the environment. The amount of water used by asking AI to write 200 words in tribute is considerable. And it's not good writing either it's always so cheesy.
"These birds don't represent a, they represent b -- they don't represent x, but y and z."
There's also a lot of videos that are clearly using AI to make highlight videos. You can tell because they usually have incredibly wrong and hyperbolic thumbnails that are not reflected by what you see on the video.
Terrible for the environment and frankly it's really inauthentic. I hope we continue to support the channels like raptor stories and lady hawk and the like that actually use human beings to make their content to aggregate highlights.
Luna's love bites
Sandy*got snippy yesterday evening (5.14.2026). I'm not sure if they're love beakies or grump beakies (with a mix of wing chompies)- either a 'hello momma welcome to the snuggle pile' or a 'please stop aerating the nest, you're messing up my snuggle spot'. Sandy caught some crossfire bites too.
Edit: correction - the bitey one is Sandy! (titles cant be changed) I referenced the recap to ID but the recap made a mistake.
Impassioned Danville students working to raise $10M to save bald eagle habitat in Big Bear Valley
such a great story
Happy Mother’s Day, Jackie!
In honor of Jackie on Mother’s Day 🦅🩷 here are some clips of Jackie protecting her eaglets, Sandy & Luna, from harsh conditions in Big Bear Lake Courtesy of FOBBV & accuweather