Looduskalender

It is already the ninth season, that we can observe the events at the small bird feeder, which is located in Otepää, close to the window of the office of Loodusemees.ee

We are looking forward to articles on Looduskalender main page about the visitors at the feeder, and learn more interesting details about our feathered friends.

http://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/21980


Camera links

JW-Player: http://pontu.eenet.ee/player/toidumaja.html

VLC-Player and Android: rtsp://193.40.133.138/live/toidumaja

IPad and IPhone: http://193.40.133.138/live/toidumaja/playlist.m3u8

Like last season, I want to maintain a list of the spotted species here at the bird feeder - it will be interesting to compare it with the list from last season:
viewtopic.php?p=291774#p291774


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Carduelis chloris - European Greenfinch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_greenfinch

Carduelis spinus (Spinus spinus) - Eurasian Siskin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_siskin

Columba livia (forma domestica?) - Feral Pigeon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_Pigeon

Corvus cornix - Hooded Crow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded_crow

Corvus monedula - Western Jackdaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Jackdaw

Dendrocopos major - Great spotted Woodpecker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Spotted_Woodpecker

Garrulus glandarius - Eurasian Jay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Jay

Parus caeruleus - Blue Tit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Tit

Parus cristatus - Crested Tit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_crested_tit

Parus major - Great Tit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_tit

Parus montanus - Willow Tit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_tit

Parus palustris - Marsh Tit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Tit

Passer montanus - Eurasian Tree Sparrow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_Sparrow

Periparus ater - Coal Tit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Tit

Pica pica - Eurasian Magpie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_magpie

Picus canus - Grey headed Woodpecker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-headed_Woodpecker

Pyrrhula Pyrrhula - Eurasian Bullfinch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Bullfinch

Sitta Europaea - Eurasian Nuthatch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_nuthatch

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Surprise - surprise!! Bird feeder cam is running



Thank you!!

wonderful news!

A Blue Tit



I still didn´t manage to get a good pic of the Greenfinch

A change was made, cam is closer to the feeder now!

The man brought the camera in position.

Thank you very much and Merry Christmas .

*ahem* - same question like every year ..... Willow Tit or Marsh Tit???

Haha - IceAge, we got it!

And now fatballs are here, too

Bea wrote:*ahem* - same question like every year ..... Willow Tit or Marsh Tit???

yes Bea.


The microphone works but i cannot understand anything .

I didn´t hear Willow/Marsh Tit calling, so no way to identify it that way ....

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Only understood fragments from phone call, IceAge

Nuthatch, Greenfinch and Great Tit

Eurasian Tree Sparrow - Passer montanus

Bravo Bravo yessssss....

Bea wrote:*ahem* - same question like every year ..... Willow Tit or Marsh Tit???
http://up.picr.de/20489874vq.jpg

Marsh Tit. Typical.

At last!

BTW this season I found a simple way to get rid of sparrow gangs. They don't eat pumpkin and melon seeds, so I place such seeds in the feeder. Great tits eat them while sparrows don't and they almost never appear on my balcony and don't attack great tits. The same thing(pumpkin seeds instead of sunflower ones) can be used here.

Interesting observation on your balcony.

But as far as I remember from last season here at the feeder, it were not sparrows who were mobbing others, but greenfinches who showed very bossy behaviour.

Well, but all of them are hungry in cold times ....

FRIDAY 26 DECEMBER
good morning everyone.
release new season, one of my favorite cameras
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