Group of adults with pups near the island of Ruhnu, discovered during an investigation flight.

 

Pack ice like this, far from the shore, is the best breeding place for grey seals. For breeding on ice they often gather in small groups.

 

At the end of February the seal surveillance team went to see how things were with the seal pups. The first pups were born in the beginning of February, most of them before the cold put a lid on the West Saaremaa coastal waters.

Altogether there were 19 grey seal pups on the islet, the greater part one or two weeks old. The seals have kept a couple of holes open at the shore and use...

One adult white-tailed eagle had a totally lazy day on Wednesday. It settled in camera view at a quarter past ten in the morning and left towards evening, after having posed for six hours. It seemed that it was fully fed, there was substance to digest. For a few minutes a mate or lady friend visited, and of course crows gathered by and by in the camera area.
So they sit on the „perching trees“ of their territories – shoreline boulders and higher ice banks. Eagles perching...