Lesser Spotted Eagle (Clanga pomarina) nest in Zemgalē, Latvia 2023

[pascale]

I love "this" Andris

[handbyl]

If this "egg nurturing" male gene confers an advantage, who knows. We might be seeing the evolution of equal brooding duties in LSEs

[Liz01]

14:17 Anna flew away
14:21 she brings a huge green twig

15:25 Andris brings a mole. Anna flew away with it.
Egg time for Andris




a mole .. poor thing


handbyl who knows..

[Liz01]

15:35 Anna is back with a green twig


Andris is scared


he flew to the right


15:37 she is still twittering

[Liz01]

21:22 she is preening herself


then she is listened to the eggs


21:24 she flies away

she brings a huge poplar twig

[Liz01]

22:26


22:56 it's getting dark

[Liz01]

June 4th

Good Morning

I think we are in PIP watch

4:37 she is still sleeping


5:06 preening session


5:16

[Liz01]

7:00 she stands up, is stretching and digging in the nest bowl


7:01 she flew away
7:04 she came home with a dry poplar twig. rain is needed!


she looks fluffed up..

[Liz01]

11:16 Mouse delivery by Andris. Anna put the mouse in her pantry
PIP watch has started

[Liz01]

16:49 Anna went to the mouse, is nibbling and went back into the nest

20:19 I see a hole in the egg

[handbyl]

Well, what with all the pip_speak 'n all, Andris came good late this evening, after a lean day at the butchery.

21:14 Andris the egg-lover flies in with a rodent, surprising a slumbering Anna.


Difficult to see clearly, but a medium sized rodent, here visible beneath Anna's talons.


Anna is restrained and doesn't swallow it. She chirrups and chirrups as she is wont when Andris is around but Andris, well he WILL look at his eggs.


And maybe even half pretend to incubate. He rolls the eggs and digs a bit beneath them and then hovers, indecisively: "to brood, or not to brood, that is the question!". With Andris watching on, Anna starts eating one of the prey, tearing it but I am unsure if she ate it all. There is no doubt that we are seeing some unusually protracted on nest interactions between a breeding pair of LSE's. My sense, is that Anna has started coming to terms with Andris' behaviour - she seems a little less intense in her trilling.

Andris flies out at 21:19. But his day is not done.

21:20:


21:22 Andris departs and Anna returns to her deep slumber at 21:33. Darkness slipped her from our view as we await the 'morrow and an egg with a small hole or two.

[Liz01]

June 5th

Good Morning

handbyl, thank you for your great report

6:24 Hanna is preening herself ..


6:25 she rolled the egg .. I see a big hole

[Liz01]

6:27 up and preening


6:28 the hole




6:54 she is preening herself again. Hole is visible

[Liz01]

7:49 Andris brings a prey


that looks like a "mouse" weasel. I don't know the English name - least weasel? pygmy weasel? they are small

[pascale]

Hi Liznm handbyl and everyone

When I saw the title of your YouTube video I thought how could Andris carry a weasel ? (I had to translate it to french before to be sure it was a "belette" )

Update : we have a baby

[Liz01]

Welcome to the world little eaglet

10:22 Anna stands up


10:23 little eaglet is out of eggshell





pascale, in German we call it mouse weasel. It's a small rodent

[Liz01]

she is in her pantry




I need a break!

[Liz01]

12:28 little one is sweet sleeping between Anna's legs


Anna is preening the little head from her eaglet


it looks like she is smiling

[Liz01]

13:09 Little ones the first time alone in the nest

Anna flies away and little is lifting the head

[Liz01]

13:13 Anna is back. Little one lifted it's head




video - Anna flies away & returned after a few minutes