Estonian Osprey Nest (Ivo & Iiris) 2020

[Sunshine]

20:15

20:15 Ivo takes good care of Iiris and brought a half of fish to Iiris for supper.

20:42
Ivo


20:48
Peaceful evening with beautiful birds' voices



Good night!

[bluestone]

Thank you both for the new adress!

[Sappheira]

April 24th, 2020

05:07





05:08
Ivo comes on the nest.

[Summi]

09:07 Ivo brought Iiris juicy fish for breakfast, Ivo is great.

Sunshine, thank you for the blue hour pics.

[Sappheira]

05:52
Change. Ivo flew away. Iiris flew into the nest and remained incubated.

[Sappheira]

06:04
Change. Ivo is on the nest, Iiris flew away.

[Sappheira]

06:22
Change. Iiris flew in. Ivo made a mating attempt, unsuccessful.

[Sappheira]

06:29
Change. Ivo flew in. Iiris flew to stretch her wings.



Iiris



Ivo

[Sappheira]

06:42
Change. Iiris flew in. Ivo flew.

[Sappheira]

07:01
Change. Ivo remained on the nest.



07:27
Change. Iiris brought decoration and left to incubate. Changes occur quite often.

[Sappheira]

07:43
New shift. Ivo remains to incubate.

[Sappheira]

08:17
Ivo leaves the house. Then both come back. The mating attempt is unsuccessful. Iris is left to incubate.

[Sappheira]

08:52
A third osprey appeared in the nest area.
Ivo is in the sky, driving away a stranger.
Iiris spread its wings - to show the stranger that the nest is busy.

[Sappheira]

09:07
Our wonderful Ivo drove the stranger away. He brought the fish for Iiris and remained to incubate the egg.

[Sappheira]

11:56
Iiris left the nest.



11:56-12:17
Iiris is sitting on a tree. Ivo flies in the sky.



12:17
Ivo comes on the nest

[Sappheira]

13:08
Change. Iiris stays on the nest



The mating attempt is successful.



13:44
Change.
Ivo stays on the nest.

[Sunshine]

05:20
Still from an early morning.. Such a beautiful blue, too!

[Sunshine]

13:09
Nest bowl has such a soft, nice cushion now from the moos and dried grass



13:10
The fiery Ivo continues to hunt Iiris also today with the mating - even when she is just peacefully incubating
But it was successful, indeed.



13:44
Ivo rushing to the nest to bring more dry grass and replace Iiris

[Sappheira]

14:46
fish

[Sappheira]

15:07
Iiris had lunch and returned to the nest. The maiting attempt failed.