Estonian Osprey Nest Mai & Mati ~DISCUSSION 2016

[Bea]

This topic is the place to discuss and comment on all events happening on the nest - the nestcam topic is for documentation of what is seen on the nest.

Please place all your picture-artwork, picture-gifs, collages and picture-series of take-offs and landings here in this topic.
Many members will appreciate your work and cheer it - her is the proper place for it.

Link to DOCUMENTATION topic: viewtopic.php?f=56&t=829

Links for Nest Cam
http://pontu.eenet.ee/player/kalakotkas.html
http://www.eenet.ee/EENet/kalakotkas.html

VLC link (also works for Android): rtsp://193.40.133.138/live/kalakotkas

iOS (iPhone/iPad): http://193.40.133.138/live/kalakotkas/playlist.m3u8



We ask members to post no more than three pictures plus one video per posting, and pictures should not be larger than 800 x 600 pixels.

Too many or too big pictures/videos will be edited by admins/mods.

[Bea]

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[Bea]

Juhuuuu ---- early start of the cam this season with an excellent and sharp view

It will probably still take some time until we will see the first osprey here, but who knows what we will see in the meantime ....

[Fleur]

a beautiful view

[Urmas]

In last season during the camera installation was visible that there were fresh twigs on nest, brought maybe by White-tailed Eagles. Therefore we decided to start this season a bit earlier with new camera, just in first day of spring. Yesterday three guys (Omar, Ott and Urmas) used good weather and finally camera stream launched (with help of Techno-Urmas, who participated remotely). In the nest no fresh material this time.
Owners of the nest we need to wait probably one month, yet. Before that hopefully we can see also some stop over Ospreys and the ring readings would be perfect.
As our nest cameras data take a lot of space in server (better stream needs also more space), we start saving later. Maybe once we will ask help for enhance server capacity (to buy several additional hard disks for EENet).
Since there is no birds in nest, we can look the weather conditions in Võru county, southern Estonia.

For second Osprey cam we probably install old camera, but if a godparent (suppoting one) will appear, then there is still time to prepare also new camera system, like here. According Latvian colleagues experience - most of observers of nest cameras prefer better quality... so they install also AXIS cam on their Osprey nest this year.

[Birdfriend]

Thank you for the installation from this new cam and for the information about the other osprey cam!

[Birdfriend]

20. March

Early start of Osprey cam season - maybe still with the one or another hick-up

...and with a amazing view!

[Bea]

Morning sun is shining and shows us shadows of the cam support



btw .... it looks as if the time stamp is still not quite correct ....

[Bea]

Ahhh .... and we have videos in the pontu-archives now .... thank you, Techno-Urmas!

http://193.40.124.24/2016-kalakotkas/

Pontu pictures will probably be there again as soon as there is "Osprey-action" on the nest

[Bea]

Wow .....

[Fleur]

yes, beautiful

18:09


18:21

[Fleur]

21:02 sound from an Owl ? Maybe the Pigmy ?



21:52 Heron call

[Fleur]

March 23
7:22

[Chimega]

Ahhh .... and we have videos in the pontu-archives now .... thank you, Techno-Urmas!

http://193.40.124.24/2016-kalakotkas/

Pontu pictures will probably be there again as soon as there is "Osprey-action" on the nest

Hi Bea

What kind of files are on there? I clicked on one and it had to download. But my computer can't seem to open it and I've never seen or heard of an mkv file, before.

Thanks!

[Chimega]

And hello to all, again! Oh and hello there, Urmas! Thank you for working on the cam and the other guys and it's great!! Nice view, too!

Nice photos and video. Very beautiful! Hope to see some pretty ospreys on this nest, this spring.

[Bea]

Hi Chimega,

all LK-video files are .mkv-files. Usually one has to download them first, then one can open and watch them with a program like VLC player.

But when you use Firefox browser and click on the .mkv-file you want to see, it gives you the option to download it or watch it in the browser. It will take a bit time until it opens (may depend on the "power" of your device).

[Bea]

Thank you, Techno-Urmas!



Time stamp has the actual Estonian time now

[Bea]

24. March

18:21
Sunset