Latvian WtE nest webcamera Juras-erglis Durbe 2019

[ame]

good morning!

thank you for the reports!

5:46 Miks made a short visit to chek the nest.

7:36:22 A adult lands on the right side in a tree
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7:41 left. Could be an eaglet??

Liz, that looked very much like an adult to me. ...or is it?
that was a strange place to land.
i may have been wrong about the other eagle a few days ago. this tail looked very bright white too, but that was not a place for an adult. they would fly to the nest.

here the eaglet arrives to the spruce on the right.
after a while she climbed like a monkey a little higher on the branch. there she almost disappeared from the sight.

[Abigyl]

Good Morning !

07:41 An Eagle flew around, in front of nest.

Wings looked dark, but tail area was white

[Sonchik]

On a photo mega2 black strips on a tail are visible. This is an eaglet.

[ame]

yes, i'm watching the video now. at 7:41 the other eaglet called farther and this replied with an eaglet's voice. that sounded like Rika's voice. she has more white in her tail.
7:41:50 she flew away.


8:05 an eaglet called nearby. it sounded like Rika.
8:18, 8:20, 8:21, 8:26, 8:29, and once more at 8:37 again.


i think i heard some calls after that, too.
8:39 my recording failed but i got it restarted 5 min later but then the pc got stuck and i lost all till 8:55.

[Liz01]

Liz, that looked very much like an adult to me. ...or is it?
that was a strange place to land.
i may have been wrong about the other eagle a few days ago. this tail looked very bright white too, but that was not a place for an adult. they would fly to the nest.

ame, That irritated me too

[Sonchik]

...
i may have been wrong about the other eagle a few days ago. this tail looked very bright white too, but that was not a place for an adult. they would fly to the nest.
...

Therefore I also wrote recently that it is possible not to pay attention to a tail. It is very deceptive.

[ame]

i think that the tail of WTEs is a signal for long distance communication. even an eaglet's tail looks very white over a long distance although it is very dark. i believe that eagles themselves see it more or less as we see it. the tail shows where an eagle is flying even when there is little light.
from closer the other colours of an eaglet work as 'warning signal': this eagle may attack for almost no reason.

i changed the title of the eagle's fly-by video 2 days ago and also edited the post, telling that i've changed my mind about the eagle.

9:55:55 a parent's voice, not near.

i need coffee.

[Sonchik]

At 3:53 voice of an owl.

[ame]

Good morning!
At 19:24 a birdie in a nest.
At 19:32 shout of an eaglet.
At 20:11 shouts of an eaglet.
At 20:12 fish song.
At 20:28 shouts of an eaglet.
At 20:33 - 20:40 fish song?
At 20:41 shouts of an eaglet.
At 20:42 shouts of an eaglet.
At 20:43 shouts of an eaglet.
From 20:52 also the fish song at the same time is a lot of different shouts
21:11 - 21:16 sounds of animals and shouts of eaglets.
At 21:20 boars.
From 21:23 eaglets voices.
At 21:25 - 21:27 loudly and close the eaglet shouts. He flies close to a nest.
At 21:30 boars?
At 21:35 voice of an eaglet close.

Sonchik wrote down so many observation yesterday evening. thank you!
i made a few videos. (i didn't make all the eaglet's calls.)

19:24 a nuthatch visited. (i'm not sure if the nuthatch made the piee-piee -voices before it came up).

[ame]

21:23 eaglet(s) called far.
21:25 an eaglet called and flew over the meadow to the right closer.


after that the eaglet called somewhere close on the right a few times. then it flew by probably behind the camera and landed somewhere rather near (on the left side?) and started calling there.

[ame]

21:35 the eaglet called (it sounded like Miks).


21:50 called ...
21:58 again.

[ame]

I agree about most of the above, except about "whilst not the first to fledge"; He really fledged, and made it "by the book", not like Rika who slipped down by accident.
He was practicing for few weeks the real branching, jumping, climbing on top nest, flying around nest floor and high branches, he exercised winging on the different branches; we don't have many opportunities to witness such a long period of preparations.
Most of them are falling down and other fly-fall by accident, like Rika.
...

Abigyl, you must mix Rika with someone else.
Rika took off for her maiden flight in a very stylish way.
viewtopic.php?p=672402#p672402

also Miks made a similar wonderful take-off.
viewtopic.php?p=672592#p672592

i agree totally with you with the blue sentence: i don't remember when i have seen so well-trained pair of eaglets.

23:59 WONDERFUL MOON !

50 years since the landing of Neil Armstrong on the moon

http://www.nisenet.org/moon50

[ame]

9:55 an eaglet called. (i found this quite by accident.)


11:43 one eaglet called far and another near.


11:45 again really LOUD! and the other called far.

[ame]

11:53 an eaglet landed on the nest tree below the nest, on the right side.


the eaglet was rustling downstairs...

11:58 it flew away. Miks? Rika?
probably Miks.


the eaglet flew from the right and made a curve over the meadow and then flew to the nest tree.

[pazi]

23:59 WONDERFUL MOON !
50 years since the landing of Neil Armstrong on the moon
http://www.nisenet.org/moon50

Now that you mentioned it, https://apolloinrealtime.org/ is absolutely worth checking out. A wealth of information and you can follow events in real-time as they happened.

[Ajeta]

Ajeta, i don't know how i could assure you: the eaglets are able to and they do eat outside of the nest.
i am absolutely convinced of that. this happens every year and we shall continue seeing them here late in in the season, well fed and in good health.

Ame, you are very sweet, thank you for trying, and I am sorry for the confusion I may have caused
My interest in this problem was less emotional and more rational, i.e. I was seeking information, specific indications or reasons why feeding outside the nest would and indeed must go on. One such reason was given by Sonchik last night when he explained that eating on branches is part of the education of eagles, and they learn it just like sitting on branches, like sleeping on them, landing on them and so on. In order to learn it they need practice, so feeding outside the nest must be part of their apprenticeship.
When you kept saying that you believed or you were convinced then that was an emotional reassurance (i.e. don't worry, Ajeta, they are well taken care of), but on a factual level so to speak it left me without the information I was looking for, i.e. how do you know, what observations cause this conviction.
So in a way we seemed perhaps to write at cross purposes here. Again I am sorry to not have been clearer about what I was asking.
I have since done some reading around (which I should have done before causing so much upheaval here ) and have learnt that indeed it is a well known fact (established apparently through frequent observations even long before the time of live web cams) that eaglets are fed not only on the nest after fledging.
So my question has been answered now, again many thanks for the discussion!

[Sonchik]

Sonchik wrote down so many observation yesterday evening. thank you!
i made a few videos. (i didn't make all the eaglet's calls.)
...

I wrote and forgot to send, and now accidentally removed about 10 shouts of eaglets from 21:50 up to 23+

Today: 4:03 voice owl?
4:30 - 4:32, 4:37, 4:38, 4:47, 4:49
voices of eaglets.
From 5:01 both eaglets ask fish.

I have now only phone on all days off. It is difficult to observe and write down. Only I will look.

[ame]

i have now some videos from the early morning.

4:03 a tawny owl female called near the nest.

[ame]

4:31 an eaglet called.


4:40 an eaglet called.

[ame]

5:02 - 5:06 one eaglet called near the nest and the other far from the nest many times.
i think that the one near was Miks and Rika was far.