on Saturday, July 4th there was a big article in the local newspaper
Turun Sanomat about the Nauvo nest. Here's a link to the newspaper's net version:
http://www.ts.fi/online/lahialue/58517.html.
the repair people found out that a lightning hadn't struck the camera itself nor the antenna during the thunder storm on May 23rd when the camera stopped working. instead a lightning has struck somewhere in the vicinity of the nest and the electrical shock pulse produced by the lightning had destroyed the WLAN link, which was replaced on Thursday, July 2nd.
at the same time the two osprey chicks in the nest were banded by Ari Rivasto, who also named them. in the newspaper article he tells that there indeed is no way of telling the sexes of such young chicks, so he just named them with boys' names. he also took the third, unhatched egg to be analyzed for e.g. environmental poisons.
Rivasto tells in the article that the parent ospreys behaved rather calmly during the visit to the nest even though there were a lot of people there. they were circling around in the air and observing what was going on at the nest, and even returned to the nest before people left the nest rock altogether.
according to the article the news about the camera link being restored spread among the viewers quite rapidly: there were about 2000 viewers already during Thursday evening.
Biologist Sami Lyytinen interviewd in the article says that they had hoped to install a video camera which would transmit both moving picture and audio, but they had not had enough money for the equipment. The necessary equipment would cost about 2000 €.
[my personal comment: incredible that they could not raise that little money! but if this osprey study is a state-funded university project then i'm not a bit surprised. it's difficult to get funding for those projects even if there is no depression...]
in the end of the article it's told that a bank account for the 'Saaristomeri suojelurahasto' (the Archipelago Nature Preserve Fund
, or something like that in English) has been opened to raise donations from private citizens for obtaining the live video camera equipment. (funny that they don't give the number of the bank account in the article, too
)
Leica Eagles!
Looks like they have two chicks 
). both are male names but i don't now whether the ringers were able to see the difference between the sexes in the nest. (at least with the BSs last year we had to wait for the results of the DNA tests. might well happen like in naming kittens: later it turns out that Eliel-the-tomcat gives birth to a lively litter of six kittens 
)
