In spring we installed a lesser spotted eagle camera (at the nest of Eha and Koit) and a black stork camera (at the nest of Padis). But as it turned out we only saw the initial phase of nesting in the first case, that is, setting the nest in order. The real nesting took place 50 meters away, in a new nest, and it was not possible to see it in the web camera. It could have been possible to move the camera But we judged that to be too much of a disturbance. Now we know that a lesser spotted eagle pair can have two different nests in the same spring! Next spring we will install the camera early at the new nest.

 

Black stork Padis visited the nest in the spring but he didn’t find a mate. When the lesser spotted eagles arrived they only had to...