Latvian WtE nest webcamera Juras-erglis Durbe 2020

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9:28 Milda rolled the eggs. then she rolled them again. it's difficult to say if this was two normal rolls one right after the other, or one extra-long roll.

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Good Morning!

Of course, after all from 19:26 already passed 12 hours. But before that time it was impossible to unwind. In another stream of LDF, the same thing happened. viewtopic.php?p=716594#p716594

Apparently, you didn't pay attention to the year I said (2019). This year, Milda didn't do it with her head under her wing. I only saw it twice last year. I hope I find the video a second time.

aaahhh, i didn't understand, sorry.
it was too early for me.

but i have all yesterday's recordings left. would you like me to upload them to Youtube for you? it is a lot of material, 1 Gb per hour.

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i found a woodcock flying by the nest at 5:10. the voice is a fairly loud frog-like croak followed by a soft high-pitch psst!
the whole verse sounds like grrk - grrk - grrkpsst!
it can be heard here twice.


the male woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) is flying around the perimeter of his territory singing like this. usually only the croaks can be heard, partly because they are louder and partly because they match with human hearing better than the high-pitch psst's. during these territorial flights it's usually so dark that the bird himself can be seen only occasionally against the sky. i remember that i have managed to get a blurred picture of a woodcock here only once. the voice can be heard very often till rather late in the summer.

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10:22 some noise from the forest...
Milda looks slightly worried.
sounds like mechanical noise?? an excavator or a tree harvester with caterpillar tracks
Milda decided not to get alarmed by the noise.

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10:36 - 38 some raven's voices. Milda looked up. she wasn't happy about them.


10:41 egg roll time.

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11:13 raven voices. Milda called.
11:15 a great tit sang a few verses to Milda she didn't even look that way. she was still looking where the ravens went.


11:26 Milda got up. she stretched he wings a little. then she began to preen.
11:29 she rolled the eggs.

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12:12 Milda got up half-sitting. she began to preen.
12:14 she rolled the eggs. Primo (the first) is on the right.


then she lay down.

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a change at some point while i was away.
12:53 Milda got up and flew out. - this does not happen often: a screenful of eagle.


25 s later Raimis landed on the left branch.


he rolled the eggs and then covered them.
then he tried to get that one stubborn stick in a better place. the stick has troubled both eagles during the past days.

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13:16 Raimis rolled the eggs.
13:27 again.
on both times he turned to a new position, perhaps not rolling the eggs much.

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13:57 Raimis preened... then he got up.


13:58 Raimis rolled two eggs.


it's hot in the sunshine. Raimis is panting.

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14:35 Raimis rolled the eggs. then he arranged the stick.
14:53 Raimis rolled the eggs. the stupid stick was still in a wrong place.

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15:44 Raimis got up to roll the eggs.

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16:28 Raimis rolled one egg, again, as far as i could see it. he does not even touch every egg on each time, but i suppose they get somewhat shuffled when he lays down back on them.

- the stick is still bothering him.


16:52 "the same procedure as always."


17:02 a wood pigeon sang near the nest.

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17:54 i heard calls. ... but there seems to be nothing special?
- a raven called nearby and then Raimis called.
18:02 Raimis called. he raised his head feathers.

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18:05 Milda came home with a green twig i think. Raimis flew to the Observation Oak.
18:10 he flew away to the right.

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18:21 Milda got up. she preened herself and the ruffled her feathers. then she preened more.
18:22 she rolled the eggs.
18:23 she covered them.

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18:57 Milda got up and scratched the corner of her eye. then she preened.... and rolled the eggs. then she covered them.
19:01 she tried to rearrange the stick which is a wrong place..

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19:05:about 50 a flock of cranes flew by in the top left corner.


Milda yawned. she couldn't care less.

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19:30 Milda rolled the eggs.

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I thought the neck movements were to push food down the esophagus and into the crop. And that the passage of food from the crop into the stomach was done by contraction of the crop walls rather than any external movements by the eagle/bird?
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Raimis has been doing this since 18:03:35. I think he's taking a very active part in this process.