Estonian Osprey Nest (Marko & Miina) 2020

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Welcome to the ninth season on this nest!

Introduction still in progress!

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YouTube camera link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFADOA230qg

Kotkaklubi - Estonian Eagle Club channel on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCvBXT ... Saqd19N0Sg

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Nest is located in South Estonia, Võrumaa.
A military base is close, so it is not unusal to hear motor sounds from trucks and other vehicles, sometimes even shots.

A fish farm, as well as a river, is not far, so good hunting conditions for Ospreys.

Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) reach body heights of 50-66 cm, and wingspans of 1,27 - 1,74 m. Females are bigger than males.

- Winglength ♂ 448 bis 495 mm ♀ 470 bis 518 mm
- Weight ♂ 1,12 bis 1,74 kg ♀ 1,21 bis 2,05 kg

Usually two or three eggs are laid and incubated 36-41 days.
Young Ospreys fledge after 50-54 days.

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Introduction and summary 2012: http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 99#p135899

Introduction and summary 2013: http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 70#p209670

Introduction and summary 2014: http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 70#p303570

Introduction and summary 2015: http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 65#p365865

Introduction and summary 2016: http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 87#p446787

Introduction and summary 2017: http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 23#p519323

Introduction and summary 2018: viewtopic.php?f=56&t=920

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[Bea]

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Main events 2020

09. April --- Camera goes online

10. April --- Two ospreys are already on the nest viewtopic.php?p=720741#p720741

11.April --- Unknown osprey with metal ring right ankle on the nest (female?) viewtopic.php?p=721178#p721178

16. April --- Egg #1 is laid viewtopic.php?p=722718#p722718

19. April --- Egg #2 is laid viewtopic.php?p=723528#p723528

22. April --- Egg #3 is laid viewtopic.php?p=724390#p724390

13. May --- Osprey with red ring and white letters/numbers (Latvian?) at the nest, ring code reading not possible viewtopic.php?p=730765#p730765

26. May --- Osprets #1 and #2 hatch in the same night viewtopic.php?p=735396#p735396

27. May --- Ospret #3 hatches viewtopic.php?p=735781#p735781

2. July --- Goshawk takes one ospret from the nest (05:52) viewtopic.php?p=748306#p748306
Goshawk takes second ospret from the nest (19:22) viewtopic.php?p=748572#p748572

4. July --- Camera off-time, at restart after 5 hours nest is empty viewtopic.php?p=749179#p749179

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History of inhabitants

2012
Adults
Madis (metal ring) and Piret (SO)
Osprets
Nori (S7, ♀), Uno (S8, ♂) and Elo (S9, ♂)

2013
No successful breeding

2014
No successful breeding

2015
Adults
Mai (29) and Mikk (no ring)
Osprets
Carla (CA) and Cecilia (CC)

2016
Adults
Mai (29) and Mati (metal ring)
Osprets
Neeme (CN, ♂) and Paavo (CP, ♂)

2017
Adults
Mati (metal ring) and LF
No successful breeding

2018
No breeding

2019
Adults
Miina and Marko (both no rings)
Osprets
UH (taken by Goshawk)
Juuli (UJ)

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Forum member Sappheira made an interesting statistic --- thank you!

Period between arrival after migration and the first egg

2013
Irma and Ulmar; 10 days
April 29 - Irma (U5) arrived home in the afternoon. Ilmar delivered fish and they mated.
May 09 Egg #1 - (DJ, Kaido)

Oxana and Madis; 9 days
April 23 Piret left the nest. Madis mated several times a day with Oxana.
May 1 Oxana laid an egg.

2014
Irma and Ilmar; 9 days
April 17 - Ilmar arrives at the nest (first arrival 15:31)
April 24 - Irma arrives at the nest and starts attacking the "Dark Beauty" (18:44)
May 3 - Irma laid an egg.

2015
Irma and Joosep; 10 days
14. April - Osprey with ring J3 appears on the nest
24. April - Irma (U5) returns!
3. May - J3 is named Joosep
3. May Egg #1 is laid

Mai and Mikk; 9 days
23. April - Ringed Female Osprey on the nest, white numbers on black ring 29 left ankle.
1. May - Ospreys were named Mai (female) and Mikk (male)
1. May Egg #1 is laid

2016
Irma and Ivo, 13 days
18. April - Irma (U5) is back
19. April - Male Osprey with Estonian ring ED left – Ivo, probably first couple experience
1. May - Egg #1 is laid

Mai and Mati; 8 or 9 days?
16. April - Mai is back on the nest (ring 29)
20. April --- Unringed Osprey at (over the nest)
21. April - Unknown Osprey over the nest
28. April - new resident male Osprey is named Mati
28. April - Egg #1 is laid

2017
Ivo and 718
11. April - Ivo (ED) is back at the nest
12. April - Female Latvian Osprey (red ring with white numbers 718) arrives
Today is 9th day
Egg #1 is soon?

http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 99#p522099


2017
There was no egg laid from Latvian female osprey 718
Irma arrived at 22. April and first egg was laid 2. May --- 10 days

2018
Irma arrived at 19. April and first egg was laid 29. April --- 10 days

2019
Irma did not return to the nest.
Iiris appeared on 13. or 19. April and first egg was laid on 26. April --- 13 or 7 days

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Forum member mogga made a summary of the most common fish that is brought to the nest - thank you, mogga!

Once more the charts with the fishes Ivo typically delivers.
Now including the missing ones that Bea mentioned in addition.







All pictures taken from http://www.luontoportti.com
Except 'Common carp' and 'Mirror carp' taken from https://www.wikipedia.org/

viewtopic.php?p=596637#p596637

[Bea]

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Forum member sova made a statistic about the fish deliveries - Thank you!

Here are all the happenings in those 5 months.
I completed July plus August.

April
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 54#p749654

May
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 55#p749655

Juni
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 56#p749656

Juli


August

https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 07#p762107

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Hello osprey fans!

Our hopes became reality and we have Marko & Miina nest cam back streaming!
Thanks to everyone who worked on it

Currently it is already very late, I noticed only short time ago that we got our cam back and wanted to open the new topic before I am , so that you, who are here in the morning, will have a proper place to post your observations.

I am curious what we´ll get to see in the morning ...

Will work on new topic introduction during long Easter weekend.

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Well, the nest certainly is occupied, but I have no pictures of either Marko or Miina, so I don't know if it's them.

[sova]

10. April

Good morning to all
Bea, Mr. Urmas .... thank you so much

05:40 - The first picture

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Marko

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From last year

Marko

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From last year

Miina

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From last year

together

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07:07


10.04 - Võru

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