good morning!
did our Finnish members notice there was news in the breakfast show on Finnish TV1 on Apr 28th about an eaglet rescue operation in the bird-of-prey-hating part of Finland? (- for our non-Finnish members some background info: in the old times birds of prey were killed and an official reward was payed to the killers for each killed bird, because then it thought that the birds killed game and farm animals and reindeer. the birds are now protected but the killing still goes on especially in northern and eastern Finland, i.e. the reindeer husbandry area.)
this operation had been performed by people working with the '
Flight of the Eagle'-society (
Kotkanlento in Finnish), which is based somewhere in NE Finland. they have nest cameras on eagles' nests and a bear camera etc (see their web pages; the address is below). it was really heart warming to see these men helping the eagles.
what happened was that a year ago (or two?
edit: it was 2006) there were 2 eaglets (smaller than the ones at the WTE nest now.
edit: the first was hatched on May 1st and the younger on May 4th) in the camera nest when the weather turned bad (it began to snow & sleet) and the male parent was not able to bring enough food => the female left the nest (
edit: on May 14th so the chicks were only 2 weeks old)! seeing this on the camera these men decided to go and fetch the eaglets from the nest (May 15th). the smaller was almost dead already when they were taken home, but by almost a miracle also the smaller eaglet warmed up enough and began to eat. they were living in a cardboard box inside a towel and were fed with minced meat. then when the weather became better again within a week or so (
edit: it took longer, but i'm not able to find the date 
it took a month i think), the people saw that the eagle parents returned to the nest. they put the eaglets' box in a car, drove a million miles an hour back to nest, took the baby birds up the tree with a clump of minced meat (it looked like at least 2 kg) and left them there. the mummy was back at the nest within an hour and started to feed her babies! so it was a happy ending to this story!!
you can find the story on the address below:
http://www.panoraama.com/live/maakotka/
choose "
Uutisia/News" ( it's on the top line in small print). in that page the latest news are there on the top of the page, so you have to go rather low to find the news from spring & summer 2006.
the camera pictures are refreshed only very rarely or so they are not very lively. besides the nests seem to be empty right now
... i haven't been following this camera... i can't cover them all.
wau, the birds in Hailuoto have been quick then! 
no matter how many times you have seen them, e.g. in Ruissalo during the rock festival, when it feels as if a block of an apartment building were gliding by.
to every one 
