Time is up for the three eggs of Jackie and Shadow, the bald eagle couple living in California’s Big Bear Valley.

The chicks have taken longer to hatch than previous offspring, and experts say the parents will soon give up on the eggs, which were laid in January.

“They will continue to ‘incubate’ the nonviable eggs for up to another week. ... This is just a normal eagle behavior,” the nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley said in a recent Instagram post.

On YouTube, a live webcam featuring one wide angle and one close-up streams 24/7 footage of the eagle nest. Since late February, spectators have been waiting for the first step in the hatching process, based on Jackie’s previous hatchings, but too much time has now passed, the nonprofit said.

“It is not a matter of ‘giving up,’ it is simply a matter of taking what is in front of us and moving forward ... just the way Jackie and Shadow do,” the nonprofit said in a Facebook post.

The Friends’ Facebook page now has 700,000 followers, up 30,000 in just the last week, with many saddened that the eggs laid on Jan. 25, 28, and 31 are no longer viable.

“With the nest camera, we are all simply observers of their everyday journey. We can feel sad that things do not seem to be working out the way we had hoped or for the dissolving of expectations we had for what was to come,” they said in the same post on Facebook.

Much of the initial excitement starting late last month was for what’s known as a “pip,” which is a small rise in the eggshell during the hatching process and is visible only up close.

During the hatching process when a baby chick needs more air—as oxygen in the egg membrane is depleted—it uses a small protrusion, or “egg tooth,” on top of its beak to poke through the egg membrane and create an internal pip.

When it pokes through the eggshell, it creates an external pip, according to the nonprofit.

“The initial pip usually looks like a small raise, often shaped like a star, and is only visible when the camera is zoomed in. The eggs may have some dirt smudges or fluff stuck on them—those are not pips,” they said in an Instagram post earlier this month.

Periodically the live cam would zoom in on the eggs looking for any signs of life but has since stopped.

The recent batch of eggs is Jackie and Shadow’s first “full three-egg clutch,” which resulted in less incubation time for the first egg.