Estonian Eagle Owl Nest 2022, 2023, 2024

[Liz01]

10:59 Owlet takes a prey , it's the black one. and starts eating
it put it back in the pantry

[Liz01]

11:06 owlet is watching a great tit




flew past

[Liz01]

oh, it is gone


11:32 I need a break

[sova]

oh, it is gone
https://up.picr.de/45779240iu.jpg
....

Liz
such a sweet little one....sweet as sugar

[Liz01]

..such a sweet little one....sweet as sugar

sova, thanks for taking the time to look here. I know you're also very busy with the hawk chicks. you do a great job there, as always!

you*'re right, the owlets are pretty sweet.

[sova]

Liz....I'm always there, I read everything you two write.

[Liz01]

it continues from 11:32 ...

11:36 one is watching us, two are sleeping,


12:00 all are laying flat on the nest floor


12:09 one stands up and went in the corner
second owlet stands up and is preening . the other is interested in the black bird

#1 covers the prey I think it is #3 standing on the right

[Liz01]

12:10 all are up.


#3 is playing with nest material. It is moving twigs .
12:15 the oldest is now the meerkat and watch out. It stretches its incredibly large wing


#1 has changed a lot of downy feathers

[Liz01]

12:38 little ones is scratching it's head
another is eating

12:39 now it swallows black feathers with legs on it that's a big part from the prey


12:42 siblings are "beaking"
12:45 #3


#3

[Liz01]

13:00 ff
they are resting in the corner


13:29 one is up


13:36 #3 stands up too. tail feathers are already visible too

[Liz01]

13:40 nice stretch . you can see the preen gland


after that #3 is doing another wing stretch and a healthy ps

13:52 it's hot


13:54 all are in the shadow

[Liz01]

14:00 - 15:00 most of time they are resting

15:48 a break in the stream..
16:05 the stream is a bit jumpy now..
16:35 little one is clattering with its beak and looks up in the tree
the others are sleeping and the little one is really a guardian

17:30


17:35


17:36 they are stretching, searching the surroundings , playing with nest material.
Hanna was not back till now. I think she will arrive in the late evening
it's pretty cute. They grab something with their claw, then they take it from the claw into their beak.

[Liz01]

17:44 Hanna comes home for feeding...

[Liz01]

17:53 she flies away

18:05 stream went off. here it is the stream not working! network problems

[Askja]

Good evening Liz, Sova and All
Liz, I admire your perseverance here, in spite of all inconveniences, thank you so much! ... Btw., I have learned a new English colloquial word: "sticktoitiveness" (stick-to-it-iveness), haha, what a good descriptive word (https://www.dict.cc/?s=sticktoitiveness) This is what you and several others here on the forums have !
I better announce now that I will be away again, from 15.06-03.07, for my summer holidays... Perhaps the owlets are then already out of camera view for most of the time.

[Askja]

18:30
The owlets are sitting or sleeping in the late afternoon sun, one still panting from the heat; they stretch their wings, yawn and look idly into the forest. It is pretty windy and occasionally the nest is shaken so hard that owlets are looking up to the (creaking?) roof.

19:02 yawning - or laughing at us?


19:22 obviously, the wind doesn't worry them too much - all three are lying flat now and sleep.

20:16 Little Big #3 has woken up too


20:22 #2 has found a bit of prey near the back panel. When #1 walks towards him #2 starts clacking and beaking at him, defending his diner.
20:23 "What do YOU want?...Be gone!"


20:23 Oh, #2 is getting angry! A minute later he abandons his prey and #1 takes over.
22:02 Hanna is hooting uhoo-hoohoo. Owlets are up and hissing.
22:04 (after a break) Hanna sits on the lower right branch.

22:13 I can't make out what is happening as the stream is so badly broken. It seems Hanna has been looking for prey but found no more than a small piece which she put before the owlets. Then she left.

23:04 Night view comes on.

[Askja]

Still 05.06.2023

23:28 The owlets are seeing something to the left of and below the nest box


By and by they are falling asleep.

[Askja]

06.06.2023

01:00 the owlets have been sleeping; every now and then one or two woke up and stretched a wing but then settled down to sleep again.
01:05 Hanna(?) brings a black corvid. #1 takes it to the back. #2 is begging aggressively. H. leaves immediately afterwards.

01:05 #2: "I want one too!"


01:11 #1 (or #2?) has begun tackling the new prey and, as usual, #3 sits beside him and tries to steal morsels from his beak


01:40 #1 (I think) has finished his meal but the other two are resting and not interested.
01:48 ah no, that was only a digestive break, he goes for dessert now.
02:00 finished now? Yes.

02:23 it's #2's turn now at the prey. EDIT: I believe it was #3 who is now eating... I really can no longer tell them apart :(
02:31 #2(?) must be very hungry but has no chance before the other two are satisfied. Waiting, he fell asleep.

02:54 all owlets are awake and standing up, there is much wing flapping, hopping through the nest and looking at the "outer world"

[Askja]

03:18 #3(?) has pinched a leg or wingbone of the crow and has now a problem with it...


Good night!
03:25

[Liz01]

good morning Askja and all

What a joy you are back. Thanks for your great night report
Continuing here is frustrating at times, but once you've been observing for so long, you can't just give up. so i can't. It's the first pair of owls in many years, here in the LK.
You will be gone for a long time. Horror! I'm watching another nest very closely. The first chick hatched yesterday! That's going to be a lot of work.
once they jump out of the nest we won't see much of them. the vegetation is now very dense.

3:23 wing stretching


3:36 stretching both winggs


3:37:06 wing exercises