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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Winter White-Tailed Eagle Camera News

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Text: Aivar Veide
Translation: Liis
 
Those who watch the winter WTE camera in the dark of the night - and  in the shadow of this darkness sometimes meet a fox about on its business - have a chance to make astronomical observations too ...

At least late at night on February 6th and 5th the camera caught a brightly gleaming star that turned out to be Vega, 25 light years away.
 
The strange play of colours is created as the light from the star is refracted in different air masses of the atmosphere.
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Video: Ame, LK forum
Translation: Liis
 
Raven    Ronk or kaaren     Corvus corax
 
The weather is fine, no matter that it is cold, days are already a little longer and there is food for free, of course it sets ravens displaying ...
 
Black, wary, smart birds, with a glossy black plumage, non-migrating. They are  somewhat more numerous in winter in Estonia, up to forty thousand. Female...
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Web camera image: Felis silvestris, LK forum
Translation: Liis
Even more white-tailed eagles had arrived by today, from Finland judging by the rings
 
Viewers are welcome to count for themselves how many white-tailed eagles one camera view can hold, the time was half past three in the afternoon. Some are likely to be newly acquainted young birds; there was more bickering than the food merited ...
 
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Web camera image and video: Fleur, LK forum
Translation: Liis

Side by side - adult and juvenile.
 
It was a beautiful snowy eagle day at Nõva, and a beautiful skiing day at Otepää.
 
Before midday six eagles were there at the same time in camera view. Young birds. dominated. No one was starving, and romping-wading in the loose snow that had fallen overnight lasted the whole day.

 
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Web camera images: Knulp, LK forum
Translation: Liis
 

Early on Sunday morning Tiit brought roaches, bream  and crucians* to our relict lake ice. The water level was very high, the ice thin and the banks unfrozen, it was necessary to search for a place to get on to the ice. Because there was food on the banks too the birds didn’t hurry out on the open ice but the white-tailed eagles carefully observed what went on from the perching tree. Briefly, this is the story: after the curious hooded crows went to check the fish the prudent ravens were soon there too. After some more time or...

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Images and video: Fleur, LK forum
Translation: Liis
Common buzzard   Hiireviu   Buteo buteo

Winter has quietly taken over on the northwestern coast and increased the ice thickness on the relict...
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Transmission courtesy of Televõrgu AS and EENet

 

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Text: Tiit Randla
Last photo and video: Aivar Veide
 Translation: Liis
Finnish rings.
 
At the white-tailed eagle feeding ground at Nõva the season started with laying out meat at the end of November. The eagles came one week later. Usually an adult bird stopped at the food, but even more often 2-3 young birds. In the beginning of February a young golden eagle surprised us..
 
Two rather noticeable eagle gathering periods were in mid-January and the first ten days of March. Tens of...
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Web camera image and video: Mutikluti from LK forum
 Translation: Liis
 
Strong southerly winds have brought the roving young eagles to us. On the feeding ground seven birds were in web camera view at once but the real number was certainly larger. The Eagle Club people will go there to make an inventory in the next few days, then the situation will be clear.
 

See the screen captures from the day in the LK forum:

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Web camera image: Mutikluti from LK forum
 Translation: Liis
 
More and more eagles gather at the feeding place, and that causes some wrangling in the food queue. Experienced observers see the difference between young and adult birds.
We are soon in the period when the number of white-tailed eagles is at its peak: it is increased by northerly, non-breeding and roving young birds arriving from the south.

 White-tailed eagles become fully mature at 5-6 years old and those who nest here usually don’t migrate.

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