Bird of the Year 2018: Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)

[Hagnat]

All quiet.

[UteL.]

Good Morning

7:12:35 Overfly cranes??!



hi

breakfast
7:24:12

[Urmas]

Think it is Eagle Nest male with wounded scar on crotch side, but feels like at home in territory of Notch.

[UteL.]

Think it is Eagle Nest male with wounded scar on crotch side, but feels like at home in territory of Notch.

Impertinence, I was totally unsure ... Thank You

[Fleur]

Good morning

8:04

[Hagnat]

I think it is Notch. He had a fight. He has two 'wounds' behind the red patch. Bitten by a rival.
The downy feather at his bill could be his own.

[Urmas]

May be, but I did not see any notch in tail, plus seemed too much white on tail?

[Hagnat]

I have compared the little useful I have from its tail with Notch and it is not Notch.
The markings are different.

[Fleur]

8:14

[UteL.]

He has a blue beak, but the fruits do not mature until July !?

[Urmas]

During the operation of cam it is actually not easy to see details, because the attention is slightly different. And the image/audio are a bit worse as in user view. Cam transmission freezes more often as user transmission. There fore operator may have mistakes in details. There fore I have few snapshots, not to speak about videos.
But still invite interested persons to try operation of Capercaillie cam - if it is not obligation for days in row, it is real pleasure! Now seems that season is slowly ending up to the end of May and for testing it is good time with not much activity to get familiar with it. Would be good to have for next season more operators. This season I was too much behind the cam and it starts contain errors (today for example, though finally I'm happy to get one more individual (probably) for snapshot gallery, built up in forum). And finally there is also saved material about those mornings (uploaded to the public site with some delay - it is also voluntary work of Techno-Urmas, so please be patient).

[Urmas]

He has a blue beak, but the fruits do not mature until July !?

It is seemingly blue, because of front sun and some automatic correction to see something in shade. But there was seen the importance of Bilberry also for males.

[UteL.]

.... And finally there is also saved material about those mornings (uploaded to the public site with some delay - it is also voluntary work of Techno-Urmas, so please be patient).

We have patience without end, we are in the forest as early as possible. Hagnat did not get up so early with a public archive? ... and important information has been lost, possibly!
Thank you for your tireless work, but you also have other responsibilities ...

[Hagnat]

... Hagnat did not get up so early with a public archive? ...

I like the night and the rising sun, with or without archive.
Nowadays I am early when I happen to wake up early. Sometimes early cams can be a reason not to try to sleep again.

[Hagnat]

Ten days ago a bird passed the cam too quick to capture. I thought it could be a female Capercaille but I found it in the archive and it was not. Too blurred for a real positive identification but my guess is a Cuckoo, who could be heard close at that time and this passing was preceded bij a possible soft Cuckoo sound. Alternative is a Sparrowhawk.

[UteL.]

...
You understood me perfectly, Hagnat. I was worried, it is wrong formulated ... Thanks for your feedback.

[Urmas]

16 May
3:50 no Capercaillie voices within ten minutes, but it is raining
also no Capercaillie within one hour to heard, rain stopped
5:21 and 5:38 wing flapping of Cc (Capercaillie) I heard, but did not find a bird

[UteL.]

Good Morning

It is probably the rain that knocks on the micro?

[Urmas]

Since 6:00 new operator controls the cam. First steps behind the cam may be "searching something", but that could encourage also some others to try once.

[Fleur]

Good morning

7:22