Golden Eagle Webcam Nest 2022
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Welcome to this new webcam on a Golden Eagle nest in Soomaa.
We want to be as relaxed as possible, and help members to enjoy this forum. While having regard to the forum wide rules about picture size (800x600)and number of pics/videos per post(3) please post as much as you want. Try to banish the "double post" restriction. If you have prepared pictures, videos and text, please, please, post it. Your post is really wanted here. Please do not delete or withold your post just because another member has posted something similar before you. This forum is no place for a competiton about who posts first. All members are equal.
On other forums within Looduskalender, where there is one specified moderator, please respect the rules posted by that moderator as before.
This Golden Eagle forum will not have only one Moderator - as a team, we shall all do what is needed. There will not be separate Obsevation/Discussion topics.
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Ravens
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2022-06-27
Day 63; Week 9.
"A range of studies have put the length of the nestling period at between 60 and 80 days (Cramp & Simmons 1980; Palmer 1988). Collopy (1984) believed that all nestlings in his study fledged when they were between 66 and 75 days old. My impression from western Scotland, an area with a generally poor food supply, is that few eagles there fledge before they are 70 days old, with the majority taking their first fight between 70 and 80 days old." - The Golden Eagle, Dr. Jeff Watson
03:39:39 - Margit and the spider.
Day 63; Week 9.
"A range of studies have put the length of the nestling period at between 60 and 80 days (Cramp & Simmons 1980; Palmer 1988). Collopy (1984) believed that all nestlings in his study fledged when they were between 66 and 75 days old. My impression from western Scotland, an area with a generally poor food supply, is that few eagles there fledge before they are 70 days old, with the majority taking their first fight between 70 and 80 days old." - The Golden Eagle, Dr. Jeff Watson
03:39:39 - Margit and the spider.
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05:13:27 - Margit begins feeding on yesterdays prey.
05:14:05 - Caterpillar.
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Kalju arrives with prey and gets a thighfull of Margit's talons for his efforts. Ouch.
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The eaglet attacks fiercely. She grabs hold of Kalju's foot and tugs with all of her might several times.
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She switches tactics and attempts a talon hold, losing the grip on his foot with her beak. He is free.
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Kalju leaves towards the peat bog, curving in front of the canopy, bogside, and heading right.
05:31:24 - Margit continues tearing at the scraps from yesterday's prey.
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05:37:31 - Margit finds Kalju's delivery. She is soon eating it. Another smew (Mergellus albellus) or common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) duckling? I can't tell. The head is missing.
05:41:29 - Finished.
05:41:29 - Finished.
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06:59:47-07:04:11 - Margit devours another old prey scrap.
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June 27.
05:43 Wing flapping and some jumping...
05:43 Wing flapping and some jumping...
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Ah, thank you vainamoinen for letting me know! :> That narrows it down to one. The duckling documented on this page, delivered June 10th, must be a common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula). Unless there is another duckling I missed with that facial patterning? Please let me know, if you do.
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