NEST OBSERVATIONS ESTLAT Osprey Nest 1 Madis & Piret ~ 2012

[NancyM]

Sunday, May 27

The birdsong is wonderful! (I have no idea what birds are singing ,,,)

from Pontu archives
3:40


3:41


3:45

[NancyM]

4:55

Madis on the eggs


4:56
Piret arrives on the nest


Piret picks up branch and is surrounded by it


4:57 Madis gets up - the size difference between the two is obvious




Madis leaves the nest

[jopie]

Change, Piret comes, Madis goes.

Felis, I think it is the Nightingale?

[jopie]

Madis with a big piece of bark, Piret leaves

[maertha]

9:24 One bird in the nest, beak open, tongue visible – very alert. There are some down feathers at the edge of the nest which I have not noticed before
9:36 It gets up: it´s the male. Madis rolls the eggs, changes the position. Sits down again and rearranges the bark within his reach. Nervous? Many flies are at the nest
9:44 The beak is closed now, but he looks around very alert all the time
9:44 I closed the cam




9:36 Male eagle in the nest

[maertha]

Madis with a big piece of bark, Piret leaves

Jopie, could you add the cam time to your observations? The forum time always puzzles me...

[b.h-p]

9.51 Piret arrived and Madis went up and flew shortly after


9.58 Madis returned with a piece of bark


10.06 Piret and her eggs


have a nice Sunday everybody

[jopie]

Jopie, could you add the cam time to your observations? The forum time always puzzles me...

Maertha, I sure would if only I could. Estonian time differs from our time, so it puzzles me too

[b.h-p]

4:55

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Nancy
All these early morning photos are very, very beautiful with their special mood, thanks so much for showing them

by the way, where is the punto pics to be found? - just if all members are allowed to have a look from time to time

[b.h-p]

Maertha, I sure would if only I could. Estonian time differs from our time, so it puzzles me too

The same is for me, but I try to catch the time at camera, but sometimes it´s difficult too because of small ciffers which can be difficult to read. I have thought of if I should set cam-time at my PC, but perhaps this would be too confusing in other connections

[jopie]

Something remarkable happened: Madis brought a fish and Piret left with it. Madis was on the eggs but suddenly flew away after loud alarm cries. Now Piret came back with the fish and eats it in the nest, next to nestbowl.



Fish in left paw

[jopie]

And after Piret left, Madis came back and is now on the eggs.

[NancyM]

Nancy
All these early morning photos are very, very beautiful with their special mood, thanks so much for showing them

by the way, where is the punto pics to be found? - just if all members are allowed to have a look from time to time

b.h-p

The Pontu archive has still images taken at one minute intervals (the picture you quoted is a screencap that I took.)

The url is changed each day and each minute. To look at any particular picture, make sure the url shows the date and time you want to see - the date must be changed in two places and the time is at the very end.

Here is the link to a picture from May 27 (2012-05-27) at 05:51:
http://pontu.eenet.ee/kalakotkas/2012-0 ... -05-51.jpg

[jopie]

Nancy, the one bhp mentioned is absolute my favorite too!!

[macdoum]

Maertha, I sure would if only I could. Estonian time differs from our time, so it puzzles me too

Jopie,its very easy. Just look at your time on the computer and add one hour
My computer now says 17:16 so nest time is 18:16. Very easy.

[macdoum]

18:19 Piret is brooding the eggs.
The weather there is nice and sunny,hardly any wind today. Perfect fpr the nesting birds. (unless the temperature is 28° )

18:42 Piret has just turned the eggs & dug in the nestbowl. Now she's sitting again.

[jopie]

18.42 Seems easy enough Macdoum, thank you.

[jopie]

17.51 Only "problem"is, what is the use of it because the exact same time one can read on the right top-side of this post.

Or is 5.52 different from 17.52?

[jopie]

18.55 and now something funny happened. After a few minutes the time in my post was 1 hour later

[b.h-p]

from earlier today when I had some time to have cam. open and look now and then

13.18 Piret in nest, preening
13.50 Piret alert and pieping, shortly after Madis came to nest with a twig as he arranged at the nestrim. He left after a couple of minuts
14.45 I left cam.