Want to name the baby bald eagles just born at the Royal Botanical Gardens? Contest starts today

Baby bald eagles, or eaglets, have hatched at the Royal Botanical Gardens

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Caption: A contest to name two baby bald eagles at the Royal Botanical Gardens launched on June 1. (Garrine Tsang/Submitted by Tory Crowder)

Want to help name a baby bald eagle? Now is your chance.
Two baby eagles were born this spring at the Royal Botanical Gardens and to commemorate the 10th year of eagles nesting at the RBG, they have launched a contest to find a name for the eaglets that ends on June 11.
"[The eagles] always have seem to have laid eggs on about Valentine's Day — so they're very coordinated with people's time — and then their eggs hatched about the first day of spring," said Tys Theysmeyer, head of natural lands at the RBG.
To submit a name suggestion, people need to comment under the contest's post on the RBG's website or on their social media before June 11.
Then, from June 12 to 15, the RBG will hold a vote to determine the winners.

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The contest is also happening ahead of the eaglet's first flight, which is expected to happen toward the end of June. Theysmeyer said it usually takes eaglets around three months to start flying.
The two lucky winners will be given a free year-long membership for RBG.
"We're closing in on the end of it. They're already kind of looking like full size eagles, but they're big already. I think in about three weeks, they'll be out flying," he said.
They won't be leaving the nest quite yet, though.
"They leave the nest when the parents decide they've had enough of them. So that's usually September," added Theysmeyer.
These two Hamilton-born eagles will be flying around for a while. According to Theysmeyer, eagles in the region usually live around 20 years.
The RBG had not held a naming competition since the eagles started hatching their eggs in the region, said Theysmeyer, in part because the eagles kept moving trees and the nest was not always visible.