Lesser Spotted Eagle Webcam Discussion 2009 ~ Eha & Koit

[Patsycat]

14:10
Looks nice and calm at the nest after the recent winds!

[Patsycat]

15:18
Dad is on the nest now - changeover!

[ergee]

This rather large egg is not complete white, Wikipedia calls it: buff spotted and also says:
This eagle lays 1-3 white buff spotted eggs in a tree nest. As usual for eagles, only in seasons with very abundant prey does more than one young fledge.
However the female starts incubating when the first egg has been laid, and thus the first young to hatch usually outgrows its clutchmate(s) and will kill and even eat them sooner or later!
Let's hope there will be only one egg - or two, with an enormous quantity and quality of food so that killing in the nest does not occur, it would be very disagreable to see I think, but: it's nature!

[vaino]

17:57, She sits on the egg now. I was afraid that some raven will steal the egg when no eagle is on the nest.

[asteria]

When small birds like blue tits grow up 9-13 chicks, feed them 300(!) times a day and never kill them it's nature too.

[Kuremari]

When small birds like blue tits grow up 9-13 chicks, feed them 300(!) times a day and never kill them it's nature too.

what do you want to say with that?

[asteria]

That is really a paradox: the more chicks are in the nest, the harder is to survive, nevertheless, small birds grow so many kids while for eagles more than two eaglets are too many and the weakest are to be killed.

[Olga]

That is really a paradox: the more chicks are in the nest, the harder is to survive, nevertheless, small birds grow so many kids while for eagles more than two eaglets are too many and the weakest are to be killed.

I think nature is as a way quite cruel.. (i don't mean any morally estimation of nature with the word 'cruel' - hm..merciless??)

I have heard a biologists to tell that it is fact that more than half of all lesser bird's chicks will die before they can fly properly or before they become adult. If they were not killed ( in accidents, becoming food for other animals, for mammals and bigger birds etc) there would be soon overwhelmingly too much birds in the world.. in some few years there would be 6000 little birds in every squere meter if every hatched chick would have descendants', said the biologist with a bit exaggeration.. True?.. maybe..

[vaino]

20:28, Eha on the nest - sound asleep!

[Kuremari]

sound asleep really - i have checked her several times - still the same position
good night!

[NancyM]

23 April 2009

Eha was asleep, but around 06:00 Koit visited and brought her something to eat. I could not tell what it was ... it was small.

When she got up, I thought there might be two eggs in the nest, but later I decided there was only one ... because when she was done eating, she rolled one egg and did not pay any attention to the other white spot. Now she is asleep again (06:05)

[juta]

Looduskalender main page

http://www.looduskalender.ee/node/3560

Click on "vaata videot"

[NancyM]

05:51 Koit (on left) transfers prey to Eha



Eha eats at the front of the nest



Returning to egg

[andu]

[Wil]

Are there now 2 nests, with a camera?
I can see one empty nest and one with the less spotted eagle.

[Wil]

I was a bit confused! On the English page I can only see one link to the camera, but on the the other language I could see:
otsestriim Eestist
otsestriim Lätist
both are nests.

[Ophiophagus]

08:27 Koit brought food.

[ame]

I was a bit confused! On the English page I can only see one link to the camera, but on the the other language I could see:
otsestriim Eestist
otsestriim Lätist
both are nests.

on the English page there are also two cameras but they are under the same 'dot':
'direct stream' shows 'otsestriim Eestist = direct stream from Estonia
and
'Latvian stream' shows 'otsestriim Lätist' = direct stream from Latvia.

[ame]

8.49: the bird in the Estonian nest is sleeping like baby with her head tucked under her wing. i envy and admire the flexibility of the birds' necks!

[yarko]

Hmm...correct me please if i'm wrong but there is no moss on the nest - just fif's brances? Just compared it with stork nest - there is moss as 'softening'.
Eagles never use that?