Looduskalender

We are meeting here to observe the life of Eagle Owl couple Lotte and Leo.

Leo is Lotte´s mate now for the fourth year.

Their territory is in Germany, Eifel area, near the river "Ahr"
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eifel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eifel

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahrtal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahr_Valley

Lotte and the two owlets on the new nestplace 2017


Camera links:
http://webcam.pixtura.de/SWR_UHU/

VLC, Android, iOs, iPhones and iPads:
Camera 1
http://uhu.streaming.pixtura.de/live/Uh ... ylist.m3u8
Camera 2
http://uhu.streaming.pixtura.de/live/Uh ... ylist.m3u8


EGE Eulen maintaines these cameras
http://www.egeeulen.de/

Main events 2018

As Lotte and Leo decided to skip breeding in 2018, we have no events to report.

Season 2019 begins here:
viewtopic.php?p=627230#p627230

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Main events 2019

07.03. --- First egg is laid viewtopic.php?p=635605#p635605
News from Stefan Brücher http://uhu.webcam.pixtura.de/brutbeginn-2/

Forum observers think different about the date of the first laid egg

08.03. ---> Egg #1 is laid/spotted viewtopic.php?p=635793#p635793

12.03. ---> Egg #2 is laid viewtopic.php?p=636317#p636317

20.03. ---> A fox visits Lotte viewtopic.php?p=638131#p638131

09.04. ---> First egg talk can be heard viewtopic.php?p=642969#p642969

11.04. ---> Owlet #1 has hatched viewtopic.php?p=643315#p643315

12./13. 04. ---> Owlet #2 has hatched viewtopic.php?p=643850#p643850 viewtopic.php?p=644047#p644047

20.04. ---> Older owlet gulps a whole mouse for the first time viewtopic.php?p=646971#p646971

11.05. ---> Owlets get rings from Stefan Brücher viewtopic.php?p=654581#p654581
Older owlet weighs 1625 gram (supposed to be a female) and younger one 1200 gram (supposed to be a male)

10.06. ---> Owlets seem to have fledged, no exact date possible
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Events in 2014 and 2015
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 63#p355363

Main events of 2016
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 73#p434373

Main events of 2017
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 78#p505878

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Our forum member romy made a summary about previous seasons - many thanks, romy!

romy wrote:....

I tried to do a summary about this nest.

2008 - start 21.02. 3 eggs, 1.hatch 23.03., 3 fledged about 06.06.
2009 --------------------------------------------
2010 - start 10.03. 3 eggs, 1.hatch 15.04., 3 fledged about 20.06. (1 was found dead in march 2011)
2011 - start 25.03. 3 eggs, 1.hatch 18.04., 1 fledged about 28.06. (1 died after hutch, 1 on 09.06.)
2012 - start 03 3 eggs, 1.hatch 04.04., 3 fledged about 15.06.
2013 -----------adoption-------------------
2014 - start 06.03. 3 eggs, 1.hatch 08.04., 3 fledged about 20.06. (limping Lotte in june)
2015 - start 10.03.. 3 eggs, 1.hatch 13.04., 2 fledged about 20.06.
2016 - start 03/04 3 eggs, 1.hatch 25.04., 1 fledged about 07. (limping Lotte)

http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 61#p496361

2017 - 2 eggs found 05.04., 1. hatch 11.04., 2. hatch 13.04., 1. fledge 05.06., 2. fledge 09.06.

2018 - no breeding

reserved

Happy New Year for all Eagle Owl lovers here!

Let´s hope we will be able to follow another season with our Eagle owl couple here .... and I am already so curious WHERE there will be the nest place .... after all the surprises of the last two years ...

When opening this new topic I discovered that I was a lazybones in updating the main events from 2017
But I caught up now and hope I found all "important" dates right, please let me know when you, who also make lists with dates, find mistakes ....

During the last weeks/months I found no visible sign of one of our Eagle Owls in my night recordings. There were some gaps when I was out and not at home, but I got nearly complete recordings most of the time.

8. January

Today in the morning around 08:11 a female Eagle owl could be heard calling hoarse, but in a bit distance.
Cam operator searched all around, but she couldn´t be caught in cam view.


The last few days female and male Eagle owl calls were heard.

It would be nice to see them, or at least one of them, in cam view .... at one of the nesting places, with a bit scratching and hooting .....

12. January

17:15
An Eagle Owl on the opposite ridge - cam operator did his best to get a better view of it!







As far as I could see it the owl was sitting there until it became so dark that nothing else could be seen with the cam.

Later there was hooting closer to the traditional nest place, but no one came in sight.

13.Jan.

14. January

12:43
Nothing is visible in this video, but interesting sound .... warning call of a Peregrine Falcon (I think), it was not amused about someone or something

18:30
A cute little visitor was zoomed

20. January

We had a curious furry visitor last night






It didn´t seem to be scared by the cam support

January 22

Eagle owl in the morning


and in the Pixtura/Archiv at 7.33

Thank you romy, it's great.
Cam 1 - is it only me?

Hi everyone

No, this cam is neither working for me, Mamicja :(

Thanks for your snapshot, romy

Pic from the archive, this morning 07:33


Could be Leo, hm? Ring on left leg?

I am a bit frustrated .... my recordings froze at 02:22 this night and I didn´t notice it in time today in the morning to restart it ... so I missed the visit
After months finally a visit and then this ....

It seems to me that the camera has changed the location a bit. Did someone visit the ledge yesterday?

Mamicja wrote: It seems to me that the camera has changed the location a bit. Did someone visit the ledge yesterday?

... and the picture is clearer. It also seems that the camera can be reset for 10 minutes.

2. February

When I checked the cam at 13:45 Stefan Brücher was on the ledge, can´t say how long he was already up there ...




There was no audio transmission, only video



He must have been at the microphone at the nestbowl, too - because there was sound later

At 14:04 he appeared in view of the other cam, neither sound from here

Some sorrowful glances ....






Demontage of some technical stuff ....





When this video stops also transmission stopped and there was an endless repeating video again.

But later transmission began to work ....

February 8

Cam works, hope, not only for just a moment. In the tree is sitting a eagle owl

Maybe new nesting place? And new work for Stefan Brücher?