What is Going On?

[ame]

we had sunshine for about 10 min at about 11 o'clock so there was plenty of time for our cat to see her shadow if i had taken her out.

so we are going to have winter for 6 more weeks.

[Felis silvestris]

Neither cat nor groundhog would have seen any kind of shadow here today. It was grey and foggy all day!
So, we are in for an early spring?

[IceAge]

My cat couldn't see her shadow today. Maybe spring is in the air .

[ame]

this year Phil the Groundhog saw his shadow at 7:28 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and thus predicted 6 more weeks of winter.
http://www.visitpa.com/groundhog-day-live-stream

no wonder he saw its shadow: he was brightly lit for the TV in the early rainy morning when it wasn't nearly light yet.

[Luz4711]

Info: http://natourest.ee/2013/07/film-about- ... in-europe/
For those who can receive ARTE:
http://www.coraxfilm.de/de/baltikum12
You might see places and animals you know.
http://www.coraxfilm.de/de/sendetermine.html
18th March "Woods"
17th March "The Coast"
I guess it will also shown on other ARD TV Stations later.

[iku]

Hello to all!
Today, we have begun nesting time for the birds.
Blackbird (Osku) sang to me. So did last spring, but much later. I experience this gratitude and quiet song is just for me. It will be right beside the courtyard and looks at me. I fed two years in our yard several blackbirds, some have been given a name. This Osku comes to the window to pick up the food. It is also the most daring and wait for me for discussion. It keeps the words: come, come. Last spring, the song was also involved in that word. Sang "Come, come, tilu, tilu, lei ...."
our cat (20 years) is also a very dignified responded to it. Do not even try to hunt it. Otherwise, there is still a very strong hunting instinct remains intact.

[Katinka]

iku, hyvää iltaa...
(If you like to write in your heart language, you can send a PM/an E-mail to me, and I try it with the help of Google Translate...)

You are joking? or is it serious, that you have a blackbird (mustarastas) now?
Do you know that this bird is missing, in front of the webcam-birdfeeder in Pärnumaa?

[Katinka]

Stopping activities for Malta?

Not for sensitive readers, the traditional sports on Malta, shooting birds/Black Storks down from the sky.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/vi ... vXMLrT6rcs
Just found it via Facebook/ DzivibasLidojums.

[iku]

"Margossa"
I want to thank you as I said. as I read the last messages
We do not have not a lot of snow.
Birds are indeed caused a little extra "tressiä."
We have a few blackbirds team, who wintered and we ruokkinet. There are even some of the names (Osku. Charlie, Kyllikki and Henpukka) that recognize and come to the invitation, if you do not come to the window to pick up the food. Thus, those last two are obviously females, although this "hempukan" in terms of we have been discussing with one ornithologist, may also be the case for a young male.

[Katinka]

So, iku has found her place with the postings in "Birds Birds Birds", and I am relieved!

Today, I came across an announcement for this summer in Germany:
In the town of Fellbach near Stuttgart (?) there is a "cultural summer", lasting 2 months and introducing a good width of music from Eesti and Suomi.
Homepage: http://www.fellbach.de/text/1372/de/kul ... -2014.html
The first program flyer: http://www.fellbach.de/html/seiten/outp ... p?id=17966

[Katinka]

The Ukraina is a country in Europe.

[Liis]

New webcam?
It seems we may be getting a red deer webcam very soon - see front page http://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/19246

[Wil Muller]

Great news

[Katinka]

Adorable Spanish guitar artist Paco de Lucía is dead.

Sonntag, 2. März 2014 Von Trauer ergriffen

Algeciras, Spanien Freunde und Angehörige des am Donnerstag verstorbenen weltberühmten Gitarrenspielers tragen seinen Sarg. Paco de Lucía machte den Flamenco einem breiten Publikum zugänglich und kombinierte ihn mit verschiedenen Musik-Stilen. Nach Angaben der spanischen Nachrichtenagentur efe ist er in Cancún, Mexiko, einem Herzinfarkt erlegen.

Source: t-online.de

[NancyM]

Katinka, we ask everyone here to post in English, please.
Can you translate for us the German in your post?

I know the content of this topic has changed over time, but the original intent was to post about LK and LK forum news. Posts about local people fit better under other topics in the Social area.

[Katinka]

Translation is a temporal matter for me, at the moment.
Sorry.
Paco will be a name to most people and it's to find about him in the widths of the internet anyway.

Besides, this thread's intention has changed, as you can find.
JoUK had opened a different thread for that. Can't find it now, forum is too complexe...

[Luz4711]

http://natourest.ee/2013/07/film-about- ... in-europe/
http://www.coraxfilm.de/de/baltikum12

A reminder for those who can receive Arte France or Germany on TV or as life stream in the Internet (klick "en direct" or "Live" on top of Arte page:

A documentation about the wild life in the Baltic Region - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -, produced in HD - see trailers/videos
In case you can not receive it: search later on YouTube for "Wildes Baltikum" or "La Baltique Sauvage"

First part "The Cost" incl. the Seals on Saaremaa
Monday 17. March 19:30 CET - Arte Germany / 19:00h CET Arte France
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/045379-001/ ... ltikum-1-2
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/045379-001/ ... ltikum-1-2
Trailer (1 minute) shows several animals incl. the WTEs

Second part "Woods and Bogs incl. Alutaguse, Soomaa, the Bears and
LSEs, the Wolves and so on
Tuesday 18. March 19:30 CET - Arte Germany / 19:00h CET Arte France
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/045379-002/ ... ltikum-2-2
http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/045379-002/ ... auvage-2-2
Trailer (2 minutes) shows Europe's widest waterfall in Latvia and relatives of Carps trying to overcome a 400-meter-long rock barrier in order to reach their spawning grounds.

And even if you do not understand French or German language the pictures are amazing (Arte TV offers undertitles).

[Felis silvestris]

I have seen the 2 parts on Austrian TV (as part of "Universum") already, they are really worth watching! Absolutely wonderful pictures!

[Luz4711]

I have seen the 2 parts on Austrian TV (as part of "Universum") already, they are really worth watching! Absolutely wonderful pictures!

To bad: it was available 7 days after broadcasting on ORF (19.02.and 12.02.) as video on demand. But I will keep an eye on it and inform especially those who cannot watch Arte live and so on when it is available in the net as video for free. But who knows, may be Arte live can be seen all over the world.
NancyM and Alice44 could you give it a try? Thanks.

[Felis silvestris]

The first part was in their Mediathek for a week, the second part was never viewable outside Austria. But the films will be on show in other European countries as well, as I have been informed.