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The second new WtE is Kelli, adult female

Her home is Pärnu Bay and the bogs in the North of it




It will be interesting to follow their ways and I hope they are doing well now after their treatments.

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Bea, is there a page to read about the history of the two WTE?

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Hi Polly,

no, not as far as I know.

These infos here are taken from the birdmap
http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/

Click on the name of a bird and you can see the infos and pictures which are provided

Thank you Bea! :)

Yes, I have already done that but hoped that there would be more to learn somewhere.
That's a pity but okay.

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19. August

Osprey Autumn Migration 2019

With yesterday´s data we can see that Elena is still pit-stopping and Vova is making pace!





Elena still enjoying the ponds at Klyntsi in Ukraine





Vova crossed Ukraine and is already in Romania, not that far from the capital Bucharest



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19. August

Great Bittern Autumn Migration

There is again already well known Great Bittern BITT03 from Latvia on the birdmap, a male bird, which was already good for some surprise
BITT03 is another adult male Great Bittern caught in small pond in Kurzeme region in Latvia. He has been caught at his booming site by using mist-nets on 21st April, 2017 in overgrown pond near the village Lamiņi, Tukums County. During the summer and autumn bird visited several small wetlands within the County. On 14th November he reaches Lake Kaņieris which is about 33 kilometres from capturing site. Last signal from there came on 18th November. There were no signals until the end of January 2018. Then on January 31 suddenly bird appeared in Sweden, not far from Malmö.




With data from 16. August BITT03 is still pretty "local"




Picture to bring to our minds how big Great Bitterns are



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19. August

Osprey Autumn Migration 2019

Hoij, Vova has already an update and with today´s data he passed Bucharest, crossed the border and left Romania and is already in Bulgaria *wow*





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20. August

Osprey Autumn Migration 2019

Ohooo .... Estonian osprey Kalle is on his way South!
He is already in Belarus.
Probably ready with feeding his offspring, hopefully we´ll get more infos about his this year´s nesting success



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20. August

Osprey Autumn Migration 2019

Vova is still in Bulgaria and it looks like he decided to make a pitstop, finally






I think he caught some fish here, to regain power for the next part of his way South



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21. August

Osprey Autumn Migration 2019

Vova is still in Bulgaria on his pitstop





He visited another pond and returned to the pond where he was already yesterday


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Vova and Kalle are on their way to the South - while Marko and Ivo are still "at home"
Is there any explanation? Did Vova and Kalle not breed and have not to take care of anybody?

As far as I know both Kalle and Vova bred successfully.

The males leave after their offspring has left. The birds are individuals - they do not go all at the same time. Depends on circumstances and unknown factors linked to their inner impulse stemming from their collective to 'go'.

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Hi aquiline,

Vova had one offspring this season and about Kalle I currently don´t know, but I hope to get some more information with time. But I suppose he was breeding.

As far as I know the timeframe for osprey migration gives a lot of room for their individual decisions. I see the dates that we know from our nest cam ospreys and those from the birdmap ospreys as examples, but not as rules.

Rita and Bea
thanks for all the info So Ospreys have a wide timeframe

Elena's station is taking a break. He's probably confused.
No new dates since August 18th. ( )

Thank you for your interesting remarks.

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22. August

Osprey Autumn Migration 2019

Kalle is making pace, with data from yesterday he is in Ukraine now, already passed Kiew





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When I look at the distances our birds are flying I always think 'OMG what an effort'.
But when I see that for example Kalle is flying at such speed without longer stops I assume that is also fun to fly without any worries

aquiline: Kalle is heading as quickly as possibly to Kharzynska-Gulf near the Krim to take a longer holiday and to eat well
before he crosses the Black Sea. He is resting there every year.

Aug. 24th, 2019 - birdmap data 23.8.19 for Vova:

Vova has arrived at his last year's replenishment stop in Bulgaria near Plowdiw (blue line is this season):

August 25

aquiline wrote: ↑August 22nd, 2019, 2:00 pm... But when I see that for example Kalle is flying at such speed without longer stops I assume that is also fun to fly without any worries

Rita wrote: ↑August 22nd, 2019, 3:23 pmaquiline: Kalle is heading as quickly as possibly to Kharzynska-Gulf near the Krim to take a longer holiday and to eat well before he crosses the Black Sea. He is resting there every year.