Dec 31 2023
the last day of this year is turning towards the evening...
the camera is still not running but the "carrier wave" of the stream is still on in the YT. i have kept the recording on all the time because i wanted to see if the stream would randomly start even for a short time time. it hasn't and so i have captured a lot of black screen, sometimes decorated with green or even grey rectangles of different sizes.
Jānis will go to the forest next year (next week?) to see if he can find out what's wrong with the transmission. hopefully he and his co-workers can fix it. the fault may not be in the camera itself. there may be something wrong in the data transmission from the nest to the nearest link tower and the receiver there or anything else. or maybe a raccoon dog or a beaver chewed the electric cable at or from the power station and broke it?! who knows.
i don't think i can even imagine all possibilities.
(i think i saw once a hand-drawn picture of the camera and data system. where was that...?)
the situation with the nest (read:
no nest) is so uncertain still that i shall not begin a new topic for the next year yet. i'll do it if and when it will become necessary. hopefully it will be here at Durbe, but who knows. maybe Milda has decided about a new place and maybe Jānis will find it and move the camera there.
any way i think that Milda has to make up her mind about the nest very soon. maybe she'll have to seize some other bird's old nest? many birds of prey use old crow's nests but those are probably too small for eagles.
maybe an osprey's nest? or a stork's nest? if she'll not have a nest she'll have to drop her eggs just on any tussock somewhere in the forest and that's not good prognosis for success.
(i don't quite believe that she'll be able to cross her tail between her legs and not become fertilized... 
and even without fertilization she'll produce eggs any way.)
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