NEST OBSERVATIONS ESTLAT Osprey Nest 1 Madis & Piret ~ 2012

[jopie]

17.51

See the one at the right side, in the front?
See that little pouch under his troath?




It means he really has had enough food: its little crop is over-filled

[macdoum]

Its so good to read that the 3rd chick has hatched. Piret and Madis now have lots of work to do.
Thank you all for the posts,pics and videos. Thay are wonderful to see and know what has been happening.

[maertha]

Thank you for staying awake and posting your pictures, Galina! Thanks also for the other pictures and videos.
Too bad that the live stream is interrupted.

I saw the lovely trio at midday today. Piret left the nest at 12:34. She returned at 12:39.

Piret returns to her chicks



@b.h-p: Yes, I have noticed an audio/video distortion before. Think the reason is somehow this new kind of livestream. Whenever I upload one of this videos I get a YouTube hint which informs about possible audio/video synchronization problems in this clip. This happens not with videos from the “normal” streams (WtE nests, Storks, Alutaguse).

[Jo UK]

Jo does anyone know whats happened/happening to cam stream ?

I e-mailed to Urmas a few days ago - he knew about the cam problems but was unable to do anything until this week. He was busy with field works. I think he was urging us to pray for sunshine to power the batteries, but who knows what the current problem is? At least, it stayed on long enough for us to see the third chick arrive!
I will send more e-mails.

Field works - making me think -
Wouldn't it be really interesting if these "field workers" would post a report of their activities here. Of course, that is a time-consuming thing to do, just at a very busy time of year.

Oh well, back to e-mail.

[macko50]

Cam came back!

[jopie]

20.23

stream is on again

and soon after: gone again. No use in posting this every time, so......Have a nice evening/night/day (U.S.of A)

[waterlily]

(newbie)

webcam is "on"; there must be plenty of fish. two pieces are left from the last meal.

[b.h-p]

(newbie)

webcam is "on"; there must be plenty of fish. two pieces are left from the last meal.

Welcome waterlily - hope you´ll enjoy the Ospreys


nice cam is back and so is the Blackbird
Piret is tired - it´s hard to be Mum for chicks

[macdoum]

I e-mailed to Urmas a few days ago - he knew about the cam problems but was unable to do anything until this week. He was busy with field works. I think he was urging us to pray for sunshine to power the batteries, but who knows what the current problem is? At least, it stayed on long enough for us to see the third chick arrive!
I will send more e-mails.

Field works - making me think -
Wouldn't it be really interesting if these "field workers" would post a report of their activities here. Of course, that is a time-consuming thing to do, just at a very busy time of year.

Oh well, back to e-mail.

Yes Jo we nkow just how busy they are,especially at this time of the year.
We remember too that they are volunteers who toil from dawn to dusk to make sure all the nests are safe.Soon they will have to ring the chicks as well. The webcams are an extra job for them so we can be understanding,patient and supportive.

[jopie]

20.53

And then suddenly the cam is on and I hear all these lovely sounds made by the chicks

[jopie]

after feeding








Edit: this feeding was at 21.50

[maertha]

19:06 Plenty of fish

[pimu24]

Ohh,I missed feeding....did the little baby get some food?

[maertha]

Welcome, pimu24 and waterlily!

I dont´know if there was a feeding, I also have missed this moment.

[maertha]

Some Pontu results:

16:49 Adult bird in the nest, one fish visible
http://pontu.eenet.ee/kalakotkas/2012-0 ... -16-49.jpg
16:50 Fish delivery? Both parents in the nest
http://pontu.eenet.ee/kalakotkas/2012-0 ... -16-50.jpg
http://pontu.eenet.ee/kalakotkas/2012-0 ... -16-51.jpg
16:52 Madis has left the nest
http://pontu.eenet.ee/kalakotkas/2012-0 ... -16-52.jpg
16:55 Probably feeding
http://pontu.eenet.ee/kalakotkas/2012-0 ... -16-56.jpg

[Fleur]

Beautiful video on frontpage
thank you looduskalender and Macko for sharing

[Jo UK]

I e-mailed to Urmas a few days ago - he knew about the cam problems but was unable to do anything until this week. He was busy with field works. I think he was urging us to pray for sunshine to power the batteries, but who knows what the current problem is? At least, it stayed on long enough for us to see the third chick arrive!
I will send more e-mails.

Field works - making me think -
Wouldn't it be really interesting if these "field workers" would post a report of their activities here. Of course, that is a time-consuming thing to do, just at a very busy time of year.

Oh well, back to e-mail.

Reply from Urmas -
The problem with JW player based camera streams is connected with server.
Server software was updated, but probably new version is not so tolerant to stream sharing as older one was...
Techno-Urmas works on that.

[maertha]

Some more Pontu pics. What happened?

20:45 One adult “hides” a fish; a fishtail is on the edge of the nest
http://pontu.eenet.ee/kalakotkas/2012-0 ... -20-45.jpg
One parent stands in the nest (the same bird?)…
http://pontu.eenet.ee/kalakotkas/2012-0 ... -20-46.jpg
… and leaves the nest with the fish?
http://pontu.eenet.ee/kalakotkas/2012-0 ... -20-47.jpg
20:49 One adult bird is back…
http://pontu.eenet.ee/kalakotkas/2012-0 ... -20-49.jpg
… in this picture it´s Piret, no ring. And also the fish is back?
http://pontu.eenet.ee/kalakotkas/2012-0 ... -20-52.jpg

Or was the fish in the nest all the time? I can´t see it in the pictures.

[Millie]

Just logged in at end of a feed just now. Littlest one was facing away from the food with mouth open, so dont know if it had any at this meal. Piret covering chicks now and some fish to the right of her for next snack.
Big thank you to all for lovelly pic etc.

[macdoum]

I see that Piret's head is drooping,she's falling asleep. Poor dear,its been a long and busy day for both the parent birds.
Thanks again for all the pics and posts despite the cam problems.
Thanks too to Jo,and Urmas tech. for a diagnosis and seeming remedy as well.