Looduskalender

21:42



I have not seen feeding tonight, hopefully when the rain is stopped

June 16
The weather is still bad
Metra 6 minutes away, call in the background
I'm not sure I see only Miks.
In the second movie Miks climbs to the edge of the nest bowl.

9:03 - Macho with vole






......Miks relies / walks on its wings

first, Metra puts the vole a side, Miks is hungry


Metra start feeding Miks

Nice work, Mammy Metra

Hope next year she will eat only one egg during incubation and not both as Grieta did 3 years ago. Looks like after Kain-and-Abel season LSEs either lay only one egg or leave one egg.

asteria wrote:Nice work, Mammy Metra

Hope next year she will eat only one egg during incubation and not both as Grieta did 3 years ago. Looks like after Kain-and-Abel season LSEs either lay only one egg or leave one egg.

for now, I think that nature has solved ?

Just observations in other nests:

Grieta&Gints nest
2008:
two eggs, two chicks, one killed
2009
two eggs, both eaten up by Grieta
2010
two eggs, one eaten up by Grieta, one chick fledged
2011
two eggs, one eaten up by Grieta, one chick taken away by unknown predator
2012
???

Eha&Koit nest
2008
No eggs
2009
two eggs, two chicks, one killed
2010
No eggs
2011
moved to other nest, one chick fledged
2012
one egg, one chick

Tuuli&Remo nest
2010
no eggs
2011
two eggs, only the second chick hatched, the first egg eaten up later
2012
one egg, one chick, killed by a goshawk a few days before fledging

Our commentator Liva saw that Metra and Miks ate the smallest eaglet this morning 5:30

I noticed it seemed very much smaller the only time I saw it.

It was Metra that killed Mairas. Infanticide, not kainism.

Grieta wrote:

Our commentator Liva saw that Metra and Miks ate the smallest eaglet this morning 5:30

it sounds weird, but I'm a little glad that we have to look no further struggle

Fleur wrote: it sounds weird, but I'm a little glad that we have to look no further struggle

I agree, it was quite fast and that seems much the better option.

@ thank you asteria, I save the link / page

Fleur wrote:@ thank you asteria, I save the link / page

Asteria, one thing the collection of history gives me hope, that it is within the laws of statistics for our nests to do pretty well this year. I read the front page article and became a little worried, but now I think perhaps this will be the year the rest of the chicks survive. (I guess I know chance doesn't really work like that, but I will continue to think this year is going to be their year)

10:37 - Metra away


10:49 - and back with twig

10:59 - Macho with vole


they drop it and take him on again

11:01- Metra puts the vole in stock

11:15 - Macho with prey, he came from the other side


I think vole again

enough food in stock now, metra explains everything neatly down.
as can be seen, one mole, and 2 voles



11:29
Metra feeding Miks

Thanks nature, it is over.

Now we can watch with a good feeling, a wonderful LSE growing and leaving - hopefully - healthy.