Latvian WTE nest webcamera: Juras-Erglis 2014

[Bea]

One can get wrecked nerves here

[ame]

he still looked a bit jumpy but after a while he began feeding. what a relief!

[Mutikluti]

All finished well!

14.41
Feeding...

[sarai]

One can get wrecked nerves here

You are quite right!

[Owlie]

One can get wrecked nerves here

Indeed. But the more you worry the happier you become when the crisis is over - at least I am firmly addicted to these birds ...

[ame]

are both getting fed? the other looks so weak...


edit: the little one in the front has got at least some morsels of food (and some pecks on the neck by the bigger in the back).

[Liz01]

are both getting fed? the other looks so weak...

the big pecks the little

that is all not good-these disorders by humans

[Kukelke]

are both getting fed? the other looks so weak...

Both being fed. Both lively too, and I just saw the smallest one even peck at the other.

[Owlie]

14:55
Someone (Lubana) scratching herself near the microphone

14:56
Rest time? Chicks are still alert and Sartas going around on the nest
Finally resting in the nest bowl 14:57

[ame]

i've got the video of Sartas' return.


i saw how the smaller got some pieces, too. - Liz, these birds follow eagle rules rules, not human rules nor moralities.

after feeding chicks had a round of wrestling.

finally i could go to loo and get to drink something...

[Liz01]

Sartas remains with the chickens and protecting them courageous, good dad

[Liz01]

i saw how the smaller got some pieces, too. - Liz, these birds follow eagle rules rules, not human rules nor moralities.
after feeding chicks have a round of wrestling.

Ame, I know that I know it by Eha and Koit-is hard to see that. But I understand and respect it

[Owlie]

i've got the video of Sartas' return.
...

It looked like Sartas was just jumping down from a branch just above the camera up in the left corner

[ame]

yes, Sartas came in via upstairs balcony.

[Janne+Ais]

i've seen some reports of alive and well-fed buzzard chicks being found in WTe nests when people have come to ring eaglets. apparently buzzlings (could that be a word? ) have been taken alive from their nest as lunch for eaglets but then they have reminded so much eaglets that parent eagles have confused them as their our offspring. amazing, isn't it!

How astonishing! And later the buzzard chicks had to visit a psychologist because of a severe identity crisis?

[Owlie]

Ame, I know that I know it by Eha and Koit-is hard to see that. But I understand and respect it

Most birds (animals?) seem to have an age hierarchy - but WTEs do not practice cainism as LSEs, do they?

[ame]

no, no cainish with the WTEs, not even much sibling rivalry. it's a phase which passes in two or three weeks. after that they'll of course compete of food but the pecking and wrestling stops. they'll just attack on the same piece of food and try to crab it.

i can't remember about the article about the buzzlings in the Eagle nest... did they get rings, too? i'll try to see if i can find it somewhere. - i just imagine the face of the guy who climbed up to that nest and found adopted chicks there.

edit: i found it. the picture is on page 3 of this article:
http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_rem ... 5-0095.pdf
unfortunately in the text there is no further explanation. there's on the figure caption. probably no-one knows what came of these buzzlings later. probably lunch for the eaglet(s).

[Kukelke]

Most birds (animals?) seem to have an age hierarchy - but WTEs do not practice cainism as LSEs, do they?

Nope, WTEs do not practice cainism or siblicide as far as I know.

[Owlie]

i can't remember about the article about the buzzlings in the Eagle nest... did they get rings, too? i'll try to see if i can find it somewhere. - i just imagine the face of the guy who climbed up to that nest and found adopted chicks there.

Those buzzards should thus be good friends with those eagles (if the parent buzzards survived ofcourse) - as cockoos are supposed to be ...

[ame]

did i hear Lubana giving warning calls? Sartas looks alert...

he seems to relax.