Estonian Osprey Nest (Ivo & Iiris) 2019

[elisabetta-pamina]

11:01 UP jumping and exercising on the nest rim
Soon (today?) we'll see the maiden flight!

[Summi]

11:32 Ivo landed with fresh fish
Iiris took the fish, gave an alarm and flew away with the fish to eat on the dead tree. About ten minutes later she returned on the nest with what was left of the fish. UM and UP both tried to grab the fish and guess who was the lucky one? Of course UM, who started to eat.

[balistar]

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9:49 UP has transformed into a great tit, please balistar or anyone else, make a pic of her with a feather floating. Beautiful!

Summi, i'll do, i just opened the cam and need a litte time...... (and a coffee)

but first of all, a BIG thank you for the great reporting of the whole morning to keep us update, so we can catch up quite quickly with the events

EDIT: plus elisabetta, grazie mille, also to you !

[Abigyl]

13:20 An intruder above Nest: Kids are flat, heads looking to the sky and later deep down.

Mom was on the D-tree, called.

13:22 Intruder was visible above forest, made circles.

13:24 She came to the nest, while Ivo? came and flew near intruder.
She was next to kids, stepping on their heads , while 2 others were in the sky.

13:28 Mom jumped to the cam stand and kids are back to normal: winging very fast

[seira]

13:24 intruder alarm ! ... I only saw a big black bird and Ivo flying away

13:27 Iiris up to the cam

[seira]

13:41 UM and UN wings exercise... UM up to the air

[seira]

14:07 a nice BIG fish from Ivo, alive

[balistar]

Abigyl, Seira, thank you. Is the intruder chased away now ?

[balistar]

Summi, meanwhile i looked for the beautiful floating down feather on UPs face.
Here are the pics:

09:47 UP with her face accessoire


09:48 here it looks like a bridal veil


09:50 even after intensive preening it remains

[Bea]

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Hello everybody

I think I have to send a reminder about picture size for LK forum - in Looduskalender forum rules members are asked to post their pictures in a max. size of 800 x 600 pixels and not more than 3 pictures per post.
viewtopic.php?p=71#p71

Most of the picture hosters allow preselection for picture size, before upload.

Please note - when you make a crop or enlargement of a picture, this size preselection may not work at some photo hosters. One has to resize the edited pictures to the wanted size before upload, with a picture editing program like "Paint" or similar. "Paint" is on every Window computer.

Thank you all in advance!

[Summi]

Thank you, balistar. UP looks beautiful with this bridal veil.

[balistar]

Bea, i think that affects my enlargements set above Sorry, that was not an intention, i'm still learning with the magnifications i try to do my best in quick learning

EDIT: Bea, meanwhile i resized the enlargements as you recommended. Please tell me, if they are ok now, just to let me know, if i did it right now.


Summi, you're welcome

[Bea]

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Heavens!!!

Who is off the nest now - is it UM??? One fledged!!!!

[Summi]

15:10 UM decided to fly away! He is enjoying the feeling of the air under his wings.
Sisters are attentively searching the sky for their brother.

[Helga]

15:10 UM decided to fly away! She is enjoying the feeling of the air under her wings.
Sisters are attentively searching the sky for their brother.

and she is not willing to come back since around 20 minutes

[hansw]

With one eye I just saw one fly away. The other eye was on Tour de France. :)

[Bea]

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15:10

Ospret UM fledges


Short before his take-off UM pooped over the nest rim

He took off like a pro - very sporting with a dive!

And his sisters looked not very amused about his actions in the air

Iiris followed him, this guy needs a guard for his first flight, definitely

[Bea]

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I am curious for UM´s first landing back on the nest .... on which of his siblings will he land?

Heads down, girls!

[Galina]

UM is free in the sky, so wonderful.

on which of his siblings will he land?

[Bea]

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15:10