ESTLAT Estonian WTE Webcam 2013

[ame]

it's snowing. first a magpie called.


and now someone who sounds like a buzzard but not quite..?
a jay?

[lispet]

Good morning!

It is snowing a little

[MarshaMay]

Good Morning, beautiful and eerie looking at the nest this morning. And now snowing!

I hope you get the answers to your questions, Ame. I appreciate the videos and pictures.

[lispet]

grey shades of the morning

[fireblade1]

09:13h

[ame]

9.14 Linda called long and loud. maybe it is time that Sulev should come and release her from nest duty?

earlier at 8:44 a pair of great tits visited Linda. they seemed to be about as amusing to Linda as mosquitos are to us: she flapped at them to shoo them away and made a few irritated kaa-kaa's, but that didn't seem to help much (as little as waving hands repels mosquitos )


video again in async, sorry.

video again in async, sorry. i think i found the right question thread in Videolan and i've registered to Videolan-forum so that i can ask it.

[Lussi05]

Good morning

The pictures from early morning are beautiful!

09:13 - Linda is calling..

[Lussi05]

09:41

09:43

[Lussi05]

10:20 - Some morning care..

10:22 - And a strech of the legs, and changing position..

A Nuthatch has been calling, and I think I hear some Jays (not sure though)

10:30 - No Sulev yet, I have to go..

[laranjeiras]

linda calls from afar... sulev just came and brought her some breakfast (couldn't see what it was) and they had a changeover with little beeps and whistles...

[Bea]

10:31
Linda beeped softly and announced Sulev coming home .... he had a small fish in his left talon - not easy to see because of the shadow

[Bea]

Change ...


Linda was delighted about the fish and gobbled it whole

[Bea]

Linda made some wingstretches and took off ... Sulev stayed on the eggs

[ame]

i made a slowmotion video (1/3 speed) of the change because i thought i might help to see better what Sulev's catch was. it can't be seen much more clearly i'm afraid. i think it was a fish shorter but wider than the one yesterday. Linda grabbed it in her beak before she got up (it can be seen in between S and L as a silhoutte). the fish went down in one piece again and it seems that it was halfway down in Linda's throat when she got up.
slowmotion:


the normal speed video: http://youtu.be/cERfdQWLspo
here's a picture where the fish is seen best. it's in the green circle. in the blue ellipse in the background there's something blue: open water!
(altough i don't see it now... and now it is visible again at 11:15. maybe the changing sunshine makes it vanish sometimes...)


the best frame from the video: Linda takes off at 10:32.

[ame]

an older picture here. 9:41 Linda had the eggs lined up again.

[ame]

11.37 Sulev suddenly called at something long and loud. i could not see why

sound is misplaced in the first clip but you know what Sulev sounds like.

11:38 again

[Bea]

Calling and watching the sky ...

[laranjeiras]

more calling and looking around...

edit: 12.55: and now linda comes and they swap over - linda brings some hay in her beak...

[ame]

12:54 Linda came. so that's why Sulev was calling. he must have seen her coming.
Linda brought a big bunch of hay with her, but i think she carried in her talon.


right after landing she began to spread the hay over the nest with her beak. the landing happens so quickly that i have to watch it in slowmotion later to capture pictures, too.

[Jo UK]

ame, thanks for the "open water" evidence. That is very encouraging.