NEST OBSERVATIONS ESTLAT Osprey Nest 1 Madis & Piret ~ 2012

[Galina]

Nancy Thank you! And thanks also for your pics :).

5:40 Madis returns with a big fish! Feeding time.



5:42 Madis leaves. They are sooo hungry, but the youngster is too tired to put up its head :/. I think it got nothing.



5:51 Piret brooding again, biggest chick looks like a turkey, haha.



And I go to bed now, GN!

[NancyM]

6:42 Piret makes a quick departure



But she comes right back! (30 seconds later)


6:43 Madis brings a part of a fish!






Madis goes up to the cam support, Piret feed chicks 1 and 2






6:48 older chicks are "bouncing" - they are full - Piret resumes brooding

[NancyM]

(~ 6:45) Littlest one looks toward us


6:59 - 7:00 Piret took another fast break, but returned at 7AM

[NancyM]

7:16 Piret has been preening and snoozing,



7:17 but leaves again, for just a minute



7:19 another feeding
7:22 Chick #3 gets a bite of food - only 3 hours after hatching!








7:24 Feeding is over, Piret settles down to brood. I think Madis is on the cam (based on noise)


7:41 It starts to rain. The chicks are well protected by Mama Piret.

[jopie]

First I read the posts and "stole" some pictures 3rd chick hatched very early in the morning

Thanks Nancy and Galina, or Gallina and Nancy for the pictures and the night shift.

[macko50]

Good morning Everybody!

Thanks Nancy and Galina for the great pictures

6:42 The third tchick

[jopie]

9.21

chicks alone a while, very wet Piret back, who starts feeding

[b.h-p]

Finally - welcome to the third Osprey chick

thanks to Nancy and Galina for this wonderful news and pictures from the early morning


and for the video too to macko, nice to see what happened

[beans]

Around 9:20 AM EEST

You can see the third baby toward the end of the video.

[jopie]

Some things become clear after the event: It was not a crack I saw but must be dirt on the egg.
Still visable now the chick has hatched:



it was a strange crack anyhow

[b.h-p]

Some things become clear after the event: It was not a crack I saw but must be dirt on the egg.
Still visable now the chick has hatched:

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it was a strange crack anyhow

you was not the only one but it really looked as if................


a Buzzard meuving somewhere

[beans]

These are very beautiful pictures!

[b.h-p]

10.05

[asteria]

When chicks were alone, the oldest one was beating the youngest!

[b.h-p]

12.50 Madis brought fish, Piret starts feeding. The two oldest were very eager to get some food. The youngest sleept most of the time until the two oldest had enough so first after 25 minuts the youngest for real began to beg and got some bites
and then my picture dissappeared and still I have no stream

edit:13.40 now my stream is back

12.51

12.58

13.16

[Millie]

So now we are 3. Congrats to Madis and Piret and a big thank you to all for the wonderfull pics and videos. Remains very windy on the nest, hope it dosnt get any worse, also looks like it is raining. Warm and sunny in London (for a change)
Are the chicks given names and are they ringed from this nest??
Madis seems to be good at fishing, does he have to fly far for his catch?

[b.h-p]

stream is behaving odd today -on and off (for the moment off again)

and here Piret with two heads
13.53


edit: has others than me noticed that during the latest days there has been a delay of some seconds of the sound compared to the picture.
This may means it´s easy to make wrong conclusions especially about deliveries if one is not looking too at the picture but first looks after the sounds of wingflapping was heard

[Manu]

third chick hatched , congratulations.....
But now parents will have a lot of work to feed 3 little chicks....
I wish all the best to the osprey-family...

[jopie]

BHP, you are right about the sound: it is not competely synchrone with the images. (I hope this is English )

[jopie]

17.05

Stream back and in the meantime a large fish with head appeared