it must have been me, probably last year. i had made that conclusion based on the previous breeding seasons which i had observed. before last year the matings stopped when the egg count was full (2 or three eggs were laid). here we are still waiting for more eggs, at least i am.Marfo wrote:I thought someone wrote here that WTE's stop mating after the egg is laid. But it could be somewhere in another forum. Can't find it.
last year Durbe laid the second egg on March 12th at 18:19. after that we heard them making possible mating calls in the next evening (17:44), in the morning on 14th (7:04), 15th (9:12), 16th (6:37), and still on 19th (6:21) and 20th (7:32 and 15:17). i was expecting to see a third egg but there was none. the last probable mating voices were a week after the last egg. so last spring Durbe and Robert proved me to be wrong, at least if their calls can be trusted. the last times were so late that if they really mated they had to do it for fun (or if one likes to say more formally "for strengthening their bond"
).Durbe and Robert never mated right in front of the camera on the nest. we mostly only heard them mating, like Lubana and Sartas in the previous year. they always flew out, too. in all these cases we had to make conclusions based only on sounds which were heard. the only times we could (almost) see Durbe and Robert doing it was when they mated in the oak behind the nest tree (the one which a thunder bolt blew up later in the summer).
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Someone is sitting on the branch, I think.
Anna was ringed as a nestling in 2009 so she will be 7 years old this early summer.
