Latvian WtE nest webcamera Juras-erglis Durbe 2019

[Sonchik]

good heavens, Sonchik, did the frog jump out of the nest eventually??

or did it dry in the hay?

Probably, and sits under sticks. I did not look further.

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20:53 Milda got up and began to feed.


20:59 feeding over.

[ame]

i think i hear tree frogs croaking. besides that dogs are barking in the distance.

[Sonchik]

Something went wrong! Ligzdas Gariņš noticed.
18:30

[Sonchik]

Milda wanted to start eating.

18:01 Raimis flew out.

Raimis departed on a favourite tree. At 18:04 he departed towards the fish market.

In a chat noticed a frog at 18:47:22. At 18:49 she moved again.

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Something went wrong! Ligzdas Gariņš noticed.
18:30
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Milda was digging the nest and got something in her beak. the she shook her head so violently that she threw a stick out of the nest, a stick decorated with a feather.

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Raimis departed on a favourite tree. At 18:04 he departed towards the fish market.

In a chat noticed a frog at 18:47:22. At 18:49 she moved again.

these are very good observations! thank you!
i would so much like to think that frog eventually leapt down. there she would find nice moist ground.
btw: they also wrote in DDF that the frog was probably a toad, which is poisonous and tastes bad and was possibly rejected by Milda because of that.
frogs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog
common toad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_toad
(to me the back of our frog looked stripy, not uniformly dark. )

playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... bqCooRchYP

good night!

[Sonchik]

What hard work.
20:33

[Sonchik]

these are very good observations! thank you!
i should so much like to think that frog eventually leapt down. there she would find nice moist ground.
...

Its legs are broken off... She cannot jump.

[Sonchik]

In this message uploaded the second video wrong. Now corrected - Raimis with hay and feeding.

[ame]

April 23

good morning!
morgen stimmung.


there's a big fish in the front of the nest. the swimming bladder is picked out. it's on the right.


thank you for the comments Sonchik!
i thought i saw that the frog had all four legs moving. how could it have crawled without legs? and if it got to the edge it didn't need to jump, falling would be enough.

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8:18 Raimis brought a big bunch of hay.


Milda talked to him softly... got up and talked...


8:20 Milda flew out.

[ame]

i think that Raimis started feeding. he is standing in front of the kids so i can't see anything.

8:28 Raimis finished feeding. i can't see the egg. it's behind/under the chicks.

[ame]

8:36 Raimis stood and started digging the nest.
the birds are singing so loud around the nest in the forest that is is impossible to hear if there are voices from the nest.

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8:47 Raimis rolled the egg. he rose up and really dug up the egg and rolled it on purpose, two good rolls.

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8:48 Milda came home with a stick.

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8:49 Raimis went to the left branch.


from there he jumped to the outer left branch.

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8:50 Milda covered the babies.

then she covered the fish with hay.

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8:52 she got up to have a look at the babies.


then she covered them again.

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9:07 Raimis flew away.