Photo © 2016 American Eagle Foundation

Over the past two and a half months, hundreds of thousands of DC Eagle Cam viewers have watched two fuzzy grey eaglets emerge from their shells, grow to be about the same size as their parents, and tear and eat food completely on their own. Next, they’ll watch “Freedom” and “Liberty,” now covered in brown flight feathers, leave the nest.

As juvenile eagles, the siblings have begun walking out to tree limbs close to their nest at the National Arboretum, according to Al Cecere of the American Eagle Foundation. To prepare for their first flight, or fledge, they will also start flapping their wings to ensure they’re strong enough to lift off the nest.

Young eagles can fledge the nest anywhere between 11 to 13 weeks old. Freedom, who has been identified as a female, and Liberty, a male, have hit the 11-week mark.

Offspring of “Mr. President” and “The First Lady,” the siblings were born in March. Later that month, the National Arboretum announced its Name the Nestlings campaign that led American voters to choose the bald eagles’ current monikers, which prevailed over patriotic options.

Once they take off, live-streamers will get their last glimpses of the eagles in their current habitat over the course of a few days, or even a week, Cecere says. During that time, the birds may return to the nest to freeload for a free meal while they’re learning how to hunt on their own. In terms of actually looking like Bald Eagles, Freedom and Liberty have about four years before they develop full white heads and tails and yellow beaks, eyes, and feet.