Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

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The previous one was not too heavy and Bitterns can handle fishes much heavier than this chick.
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18:24:32 She tries to remove the chick


18:07 a attempt
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She failed again and did a lot of nest building.

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Heavy meal
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Disturbed by a humble Reed warbler
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Another failed attempt to remove the dead chick.
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I think the time is wrong on your last picture. It is now 20:46.
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Marfo wrote:I think the time is wrong on your last picture. It is now 20:46.
Thank you. I probably made a double correction.
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at 20:43 she once more tries to remove the dead chick but she doesn't succeed. She leaves.
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May 22

She managed to get one of the legs free.
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at 8:58 she again struggles with the dead chick. She lifts it in various ways, from the head or the foot and from the middle. But no. she leaves again around 9:03.
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Strange to see that she seems pretty intelligent with the puzzle of collecting and placing nesting material, but that she is unable to figure out how to untangle this dead chick.
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15:32 she mad it :bow: :laugh:

Female took the dead chick and brought it to the left and has sunk it in the pond
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and I have missed it :-)

In the review I saw that it took her ages to take it away because underway it got stuck in the reeds several times. She had a long fight with it just in view on the left side of the screen. At 15:45 she gave up and came back to the nest.
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Now (~22:45) a very close singing Savi's warbler Locustella luscinioides

Here a sample http://picosong.com/MTzH
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May 23

This morning a Sedge warbler is often singing very close to the cam and Reed warblers not far away.
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22:06 Do I hear a nightjar? A long constant churring. It is very loud. I thought this bird lived mostly in a different habitat. Or is it something else?

The reeds are growing, leaves are coming out. I see the chicks' legs are the same shade of green.
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Marfo wrote:22:06 Do I hear a nightjar? A long constant churring. It is very loud...
No, Savi's warbler (Locustella luscinioides) (Snor in Dutch, Rohrschwirl in German.).
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May 24

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Marfo wrote:22:06 Do I hear a nightjar? A long constant churring. It is very loud...
Hagnat wrote:No, Savi's warbler (Locustella luscinioides) (Snor in Dutch, Rohrschwirl in German.).
O, of course! I am not very familiar with reed birds. I have heard this one only once or twice on youtube. I didn't know it could sing long and continuously without stopping. And loud.

By the way, I've heard several interesting bird sounds on this cam I've never heard before. But they are difficult to describe. One of them sounds like someone is blowing in a bottle but the tone is going up and is wavering.
Does this description make sense?
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