Estonian LSE Nest Discussion 2012 ~ Tuuli & Remo

[Lussi05]

11:03 - LSE calls from the forest. Stephi answer so it must be Tuuli.

[ame]

the noise of a chainsaw in the forest. i think i also heard men's voices talking. Stephi doesn't seem to mind much the noise...

11.31 there chainsaw continues and Stephi continues preening. there are very big black flies flying around on the nest.

[Felis silvestris]

I hear the work also, are they allowed to do that? Or are they outside the "circle"? Last year the work started only after the nest was left!

[Bea]

Chainsaws seem to be not so far away There was/is a buzzard calling, too .....

[Sylvie Lefevre]

do you think if people are working in the forest on sunday there are "official" workers
i think better people working unofficially for their own profit

[ame]

if i remember right there's a farm not very far from the nest (maybe less than a kilometer?) i think i've heard a dog bark there and a cock cawing. these foresters a certainly not professionals, not on a Sunday.

so you heard the buzzard, too, Bea.

[Bea]

do you think if people are working in the forest on sunday there are "official" workers
i think better people working unofficially for their own profit

I don`t know how it is in Estonia, but here in my country --- if you are the private owner of a forest you can work there whenever you want or have time to ....

[ame]

i found this post by Urmas in the Black Stork 2009 thread. (then this nest was a BS nest still. ). he posted it there on April 3rd at 10.49. it's on page 4: viewtopic.php?p=30701#p30701

Checked the distances.
The pond where foresters clean around, is 470m from nest.
The closest point of road (traffic noise) is 1200m from nest and closest farm (dog barking) 800m away...

some foresters were working close to the nest then, too. then they were making noise so loud that it was very disturbing. here's a post about it by Urmas again (Apr 3rd at 10.20, viewtopic.php?p=30696#p30696):

I checked the situation through foresters.
They are cleaning today one pond surrounding about 500-600m from nest. This work is ordered by me to make a place for to feed storks there (or even to trap one of them for transmitter, if possible). Around the pond there are overgrown bushes and no possibilities to enter for the stork.

That's surprisingly loud saw noise! Hope no other activities in private forest nearby appear, because can't locate the noise maker through camera. Also I can't go today there for to check the situation on place.

I'm sorry for this noise, didn't imagine it so disturbing for camera watchers, including myself!

As there is still snow everywhere, I hope stork will not arrive today...

[ame]

Stephi is wing-exercising!

[Bea]

ame, thank you for the older posts about the surrounding of the nest - it is so good to have you "long-time-watchers" here, one of you always remembers something from earlier

[ame]

Stephi made gestures which seemed to me like she were trying to throw up a pellet. i just can't see anything really coming out of her beak but i can't think of anything else she migth have done here.

Bea thanks for not writing "older members"....

[Manu]

15:44h Stephi @ work .

[ame]

was it a frog which Stephi ate? if so Remo must have visited. the both moles seem to be there still, too. i think i saw a pair of long legs disappearing down...
(i had a too small window again. i don't know why it doesn't expand to full screen no matter how many times i click the expand-button..? ).
yes it was a frog. i watch Manu's video again.
(this time i opened it in the Tube and then the expanding works. )

Stephi makes some squeaky breathing sounds every now and then.

[ame]

is Stephi's voice breaking?
it doesn't sound so baby-like anymore, not all the chirps...

[ame]

who needs a pine cone when one can play catch-a-mole with the real thing?

[ame]

i think Tuuli is somewhere nearby and Stephi and she are talking with each other.

[Lussi05]

19:00 - Stephi grabbed a mole and tried to eat it..


- Very difficult though..

[Lussi05]

19:23 - Stephi wants a tidy home. The food has been put nicely in place

- I heard her breathing for some seconds, while she was preening.

[Starling]

19:23 - Stephi wants a tidy home. The food has been put nicely in place

Voles are there in very good order. I bet she wants to keep them herself when Tuuli comes. Even though she could need a little help with them.

[Felis silvestris]

I was thinking the same, nicely put into order! Stephi must be a girl!