Latvian WtE nest webcamera: Juras-erglis 2015

[Liz01]

14:53 a Nuthatch

[Liz01]

15:00 a big bird lands in the tree next the nest tree and flew away.
it flew around.

uuups, there are two raven

15:04 still there and fly around the nest 15:06 now is quiet? there are perhaps the two, they flew over the pond





I have 3 videos from this event. Let's wait for Ame. she can make a video from the whole event.

[Liz01]

at last wind again

15:41 the weather has changed

[Janis Kuze]

this kick-boxing picture is the best shot of the second eagle's ring. no good for reading, too bad.

Thanks, ame!
Yes, K014 can be identified for second day now. Rings of another bird can not be seen good enough to be sorted out - I went through the full resolution video frame by frame. Both eagles have hatched in 2012 - now they are old enough to show some more serious interest in the nests/breeding territories.
What we have seen before is the different reaction of nest owners towards strangers that are in the breeding age - they are much more aggressive compared to the cases when nest was visited by some youngsters.

[Abigyl]

Thanks Janis for all the Info

They gave a nice show for Boxing Day... even though they were 1 day late

[Liz01]

now they are old enough to show some more serious interest in the nests/breeding territories.
What we have seen before is the different reaction of nest owners towards strangers that are in the breeding age - they are much more aggressive compared to the cases when nest was visited by some youngsters.

you could see well that it was serious. they need a nest. There are not enough trees, the are suitable. The habitat must also agree.
Robert can defend the nest? Or is he to old?
I've read, that the fights are very hard. It can end badly?


BTW- It has snowed?

[Liz01]

it quickly becomes dark.

[ame]

14:47 Great Tit
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here's the great tit's visit:

14.51:20 two raven flying over the pond

the Ravens are not well seen in the video. A close up would be nice

i'm not quite sure if this close-up shows the ravens well or much better than the normal view.


here's a normal view clip of the two ravens.

[ame]

the camera went to sleep at 17:00:36

thank you Janis for the information.

i looked through the Pontu pictures from this morning and to me it seems that at least one of the young eagles was in a tree in the background already at 9:14 when the camera started. also the other seemed to take off from somewhere near there.

someone in DD wrote that these two probably were were of the same sex and that's why they had this little match on the nest. quite another thought crossed my mind: what if they were of opposite sexes? they may be two youngsters getting to know each other... perhaps K014, the eagle who kicked out the second today, is a female who has not warmed up to the advances of the second who is perhaps a male.
and perhaps he doing all kinds of pranks to her, like pulling her pigtails and trying to give her snow-washes in the face, like smitten boys do to a girl of their fancy. this is pure speculation of course, but maybe we saw a glimpse of a beginning of a beautiful relationship.

[Liz01]

aha, eagles love

[ame]

15:00 a big bird lands in the tree next the nest tree and flew away.
it flew around.

uuups, there are two raven

15:04 still there and fly around the nest 15:06 now is quiet? there are perhaps the two, they flew over the pond

I have 3 videos from this event. Let's wait for Ame. she can make a video from the whole event.

here's practically all of this i think, except the last wing beats of a raven flying away a few seconds after 15:06 but it could not be seen.
i have no clue what the ravens were up to, unless they were just checking the developments at the nest.

[Liz01]

Ame, thanks for the video, GIF and everything .....

I hope your cat wakes you in the morning. I'll probably be at the start of the camera on the road to the baltic sea

[Abigyl]

DECEMBER 28

Good Morning !

[Liz01]

good morning

the cam starts pünktlich

The Tower Lights dance. It's windy

I still here for an hour. It's still dark and it's raining.

[Abigyl]

It's dark and windy. Hope it's not too windy for our eagles

[Liz01]

Abigyl
They will come, definitely! I hope that today Robert and Durbe come to nest.
When I'm gone, the eagle will come to the nest.

[ame]

good morning!

so it's bye-bye calm weather again. it's still quite dark but i see a dash of blue in the sky.
a minute later some blue on the nest, too. the snow.

8:05 there's more snow than yesterday.

drive safely Liz!

8:07 camera stops.

[Liz01]

the camera stutters?

8:11 i can see the snow! bäääh!



8:13 it will be bright in Berlin

[ame]

i see that the camera works. it's the stream that stopped.

8:10 the stream is back.

Eagle Urmas from Estonia explained once to me that the GSM-technique used by Latvians to transmit the signal is new and not quite compatible with the streaming technique used by EENET. the signal is sometimes choppy and EENET then looses the signal. (or something like that).
i looked up his exact words. i think i may quote Urmas here:
"...new approach for translation of video from nest, GSM router. But that system for outdoor use is not well developed and makes disruption of translation quite often (they don't know, why exactly). Therefore EENet server needs to ask very often about video from nest, but also streaming is often canceled because of no data transmitted. But server software is not designed for that kind of data."

8:20 it's getting light.

[ame]

trees and the meadow are white.
- no footprints on the nest snow.