Estonian Eagle Owl Nest 2022, 2023, 2024

[Liz01]

Good Morning Askja,
Thank you for your patience despite the poorly performing stream. Great pics and reporting as always
Now it's even worse, I can hardly find anything. I must search...

I don't think the eagle owls can empty nests when there are ravens with their young ones? At night they are there. What they can do is attack and kill. sleeping parents. This seems to work better on crows? Crows tend to breed in colonies.I don't know exactly, I read it's their way of killing. they can see where the birds are during the day. as soon as it gets dark, they visit the roosting places of the birds

...02:47 The two older owlets are clacking their beaks after Hugo

video soon - bird has black tail feathers and grey body feathers. it not a "water bird"

[Liz01]

2:44 owlet is doing wing exercises
2:50 Hanna is hooting once . Olwlets are hissing. Hanna must be on a branch nearby

2:54 the eldest is eating

3:11 one of them is now busy with the black prey.It's too big for a blackbird It's not the bird that Hugo has brought 2:47

3:24 they listen to the Thrush Nightingale


6:47 wing stretching


3:51 one is looking up

[Liz01]

4:01 little is trying to eat from the bird. It did not work


4:26 all are sitting in a row


4:42 crows are calling near

[vainamoinen]

I don't think the eagle owls can empty nests when there are ravens with their young ones? At night they are there.

Raven juveniles should be out of the nest in this time of the year

[Liz01]

Raven juveniles should be out of the nest in this time of the year

vainamoinen, thanks for the info

4:55 this time it is a corvidae. legs are black


5:15 long resting time


5:23 someone is on the right (Hanna?)

[vainamoinen]

This seems to work better on crows? Crows tend to breed in colonies.I don't know exactly, I read it's their way of killing. they can see where the birds are during the day. as soon as it gets dark, they visit the roosting places of the birds

In fact crows don't tend to breed in colonies. At least not in Latvia. Only Rooks do that. But your opinion about killing birds in roosting places during night is correct. Eagle Owls can hunt in that way.

[Liz01]

5:57 another attempt to open the bird to eat from it. It doesn't work


5:58 looking to Mom?

[Liz01]

In fact crows don't tend to breed in colonies. At least not in Latvia. Only Rooks do that. But your opinion about killing birds in roosting places during night is correct. Eagle Owls can hunt in that way.

In the cities they do. There are many attempts to disperse them. they occupy trees near dwellings. People feel disturbed. But it is not they are not allowed to do anything against the crows during the breeding season
This happens in many cities because the crows can no longer find food outside of the cities. I know it from Berlin

The "crow season" had just started for the employees of the municipal utilities - and that's when it ended again. The birds started breeding earlier than expected.

Soest – Hardly started, already finished: The city of Soest can no longer take action against the crow colonies in the city this season. The reason: the breeding season has already begun. The employees of the municipal service at the station noticed that the birds were there early this year. As in previous years, they had moved the cherry picker up and down the forecourt to remove nests from the treetops. However, they quickly found a freshly laid egg. And that is the knockout criterion: as soon as the crows breed, the deterrence is over (see info box).

[vainamoinen]

In the cities they do. There are many attempts to disperse them. they occupy trees near dwellings. People feel disturbed. But it is not they are not allowed to do anything against the crows during the breeding season
This happens in many cities because the crows can no longer find food outside of the cities. I know it from Berlin

Situation could be different in Western Europe. Your countries are more developed than ours. I haven't information about real colonies of crow (Corvus cornix) in Latvia. We have only colonies of Rooks (Corvus frugilegus). And, yes, those colonies cause big problems for people living nearby

[Liz01]

vainamoinen, It's a man-made problem. We take the habitat away from the wild animals. What should they do? Dying voluntarily? They're too smart for that. I understand the people who live next to such colonies. But I also understand the crows (and I love crows/raven)


7:55 One eats from the prey that Hugo has brought. It has black and white feathers


7:58 still eating


8:01 someone is above them

[Liz01]

8:08 wings stretching


8:18 another owlet is eating


8:24 owlet on the right

[Liz01]

8:25 and stretching


8:37 I'm not sure, but I think the third owlet is now eating

[Liz01]

8:44 two are standing in the nest, #3 is resting on the left. it lies with outspread wings


8:44:50 healthy ps by #1
8:59 is up


9:00 alone on the left

[Liz01]

9:17 all are under the roof
9:33


9:57 still resting


10:34 #3 stands up and is stretching out the wings

[Liz01]

10:36 it is playing with nest material


10:57 back to resting


resting till 11:29

[Liz01]

11:58 they are up again


12:17 crows are calling near


they see Hanna

[Liz01]

12:18 Hanna brings a chick. white belly blue-grey back. little wings..


I think #2 took it.... or #3


....and brought it in the pantry
They all look pretty much the same now. I can hardly tell them apart

[Liz01]

poor chick




they are not hungry

[Liz01]

14:10 resting /laying on the prey

[Askja]

Liz, vainamoinen Thank you!

Last night, when Hugo brought the large prey I saw a large bird flying through the trees in the background. I just noticed it again in Liz' video - could it have been Hanna (or perhaps another owl)? Anyway, she seems no longer to intervene when Hugo visits the nest... it's been a while since I saw her like a rocket chasing him out for the last time.

02:46