Estonian LSE Nest Discussion 2012 ~ Tuuli & Remo

[ame]

Remo seems to be taking a day off and Steph became hungry enough to give a real try on the mole. finally Stephi is making real progress with it.


hunger makes the less appealing food look more desirable. works with eaglets as well with cats.
spagetti!

[Lussi05]

17:04 - Stephi is hungry and attack the mole..

Is it the same mole that was in exactly the same place yesterday?

17:12 - She is working hard, but she manage to tear it up..

[aita]

I found 1 picture. Tuuli and Remo nest last autumn 10/28/2011.
Before branching good to know.
http://www.looduskalender.ee/sites/defa ... sVilga.jpg

[Felis silvestris]

Is it THE mole Stephi tries to get down right now? whole?

[Felis silvestris]

Mole is refusing!

Yes, aita, this is a picture of the nest, you found!

[ame]

not as a whole. it could be head and shoulders.
she's been working with it since 16.55. at one point when she tried to swallow it the first time but did not manage i'm almost certain that she was swearing.
edit: i'll add here a clip which i made of the first swallowing attempt. it was indeed the head-and-shoulders-part of the mole which Stephi was trying to swallow: one can see the big front paw of the mole in the corner of Stephi's beak. and it was definately a mission impossible at this stage.
and i'm even more convinced that she was swearing.


picasion
this is really a hard piece of food.

[Felis silvestris]

I heard strange noises and found it had to come from this cam. The mole still refuses to go down!

[ame]

YES!! now it went down.
this clip is from the last video in the series below.
that was a 55 minutes of really hard work. if it was the same mole which was there for days it didn't seem to get very tender.

edit: i'll add here a list of links to the videos i recorded during the whole process.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66PwgC0jUoc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67fJ6lUkPJ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImelqOcfYlg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=820n2WSVmyw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhwCfsVcaBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3qBsyopYY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrhisCxOaYo

and the winner is in the right corner Stephi the LSEaglet!

[Felis silvestris]

Makes one hungry, seeing it Don't know about dinner today ...

[Felis silvestris]

I have sent the pictures of the attacker to somebody who also knows a lot about birds and got back the answer, that it is a goshawk, unsure if female or male, as for the size and the size of the claws.

[ame]

that mole was no fast-food and therefore no light meal: Stephi is taking a good rest.
picasion
i bet she has had to open the top button of her trousers, too.

[Starling]

19.32 Vole delivery.

[ame]

19.32 a vole delivery by Remo.

that gif took a long time to make! and there's something wrong about it! ... now it seems to be ok.


Stephi is happy but now she doesn't know what to do...
well, the usual. the mole is so much easier than the mole: up and down it goes: glump!

[Felis silvestris]

I don't see it anymore, but have not looked for a moment. Stephi looks very pleased, did she eat it already?

[Starling]

The pics from pontu show that the vole "disappeared" in less than one minute.

[ame]

wing practise: high jumps!

[Felis silvestris]

Vole from the left!

[ame]

a grey vole like the others but this didn't look as big as the rest of them.... what am i saying! it's not small, on the contrary. the light is already poor so it was difficult to see. -there must be a colony of these voles somewhere.


Stephi's happy.

[leonia]

It seems they have run out of frogs there?

[Felis silvestris]

Too dry maybe? The only frog today (or was it yesterday?) I saw at Miks' nest.