New Camera
This year the Winter White-tailed Eagle Feeding Ground Camera starts a little later than in previous years. The camera was installed on December 8, with the assistance of Tiit and Joosep, but we only managed to get the sound in working order in the new year, with the help of Beta Group.
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Where will the seal pups be born this year?
Text: Ivar Jüssi
Screencap: Kuremari from forum
Translation: Liis
The winter this year is colder even than the many-year average, let alone the last mud ski winters, and there is enough ice for the grey seals in their favourite places for giving birth. These favourite places aren’t the patches of dry land, where - lacking ice - we are used to see them, but larger sea areas with suitable drift-ice. One such area is the western coast of Saaremaa. The first pups are born in the first February week; the top period is the second half of February, the Candle Month. Whether any pups will be born on our monitored island, and whether we will see them in the camera can’t be predicted yet. Some seals may certainly give birth on the island; from their point of view it is like a large block of drift-ice. The area of the islet is at least five times larger than usual: ice that has become firmly attached to the bottom because of the low water level has extended the surface considerably.
Tags: News History
- Birder's diary - 31.01
02.02.2012. - Burbot - the only winter spawner in fresh waters
02.02.2012. - Boar at feeding ground
01.02.2012. - Ice flower time
01.02.2012. - First results of Winter Garden Bird Watch
31.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 29.01
31.01.2012. - Winter bird feeder camera guests – jay
29.01.2012. - Birder’s diary - 28.01
29.01.2012. - Ice cover on river in the morning
29.01.2012. - Birder’s diary - 27.01
29.01.2012. - Ravens flirting
28.01.2012. - Birder’s diary - 26.01
27.01.2012. - Winter bird feeder camera guest – bullfinch
27.01.2012. - Garden Bird Watch this weekend
26.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 25.01
26.01.2012. - Capercaillie - a bird of pine trees
25.01.2012. - Ice forming on rivers
25.01.2012. - Backyard Potterer’s journal: January
25.01.2012. - Where have the boars gone?
24.01.2012. - Home page of Bird of the Year open
24.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 100 species passed!
24.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 22.01
23.01.2012. - Brisk action at eagle feeding ground
23.01.2012. - Roe deer herds still seen in places
22.01.2012. - Loads of eagles ...
21.01.2012. - Visitor
21.01.2012. - "Märka mind“ – “See me"
21.01.2012. - Elk tracks in snow
20.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 18.01
20.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 17.01
19.01.2012. - Drinker moth’s caterpillars like snow
17.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 16.01
17.01.2012. - Birds of the Year: the plovers
16.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 15.01
16.01.2012. - White-tailed eagles here
16.01.2012. - The year in nature 2011: Rich and poor
15.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 14.01
15.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 13.01
15.01.2012. - What do wolves do in winter?
14.01.2012. - Who walked on the snow? Mobile helps you know
14.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 12.01
14.01.2012. - Thaw made raccoon dogs wake up
13.01.2012. - Wintering eagles
12.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 10.01
12.01.2012. - Birder's week summary
12.01.2012. - Birder's diary - 8.01
12.01.2012. - Buzzard in place
11.01.2012. - Birder’s diary
09.01.2012. - Backyard Potterer's journal - December
08.01.2012. - Birder’s diary
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