Ospreys and Eagles in Finland ~ 2009 & 2010

[ame]

Hi ame!

In Kotkanpesä is all in good shape:

http://www.panoraama.com/live/maakotka/ ... 0%2014%B0C

Eagle is taking care of nest.
I'm writing this because you mentioned in the morning:
"the camera pictures are refreshed only very rarely or so they are not very lively. besides the nests seem to be empty right now ... i haven't been following this camera... i can't cover them all. "

Your message make me check the situation ....

did you find info there about how often the picture is refreshed? i don't seem to find it... i must be temporarily blind, again. i only see that the camera starts when the temperature rises above -1 degrees C.

[Obs_erver]

It's quite slow, about once in an hour:
2009-05-11 17:24:18, 12°C
2009-05-11 16:24:19, 13°C
2009-05-11 15:24:17, 12°C
2009-05-11 14:24:18, 13°C
2009-05-11 13:24:19, 14°C
2009-05-11 12:24:17, 14°C
2009-05-11 11:30:52, 12°C
2009-05-11 11:24:19, 12°C
2009-05-11 10:24:17, 12°C
2009-05-11 10:11:04, 12°C
2009-05-11 09:24:16, 15°C
2009-05-11 09:08:44, 14°C
2009-05-11 08:24:17, 10°C
2009-05-11 07:24:17, +9°C
2009-05-11 06:24:17, 11°C
2009-05-11 05:24:18, +8°C
2009-05-11 04:24:18, +6°C
2009-05-11 03:24:18, +5°C
Are you sure that you don't restrict pages content with some plug-ins, like NoScript?
Those links are on the right side of the picture, but in Firefox, NoScript disallow by default it.
I've noticed that when I copied those timetables.
This is first photolink this year:
http://www.panoraama.com/live/maakotka/ ... 0%20-2%B0C
You can browse photohistory quite far.

[Obs_erver]

Now I'm thinking that you mean an other eaglecam:

http://www.panoraama.com/live/maakotka/ ... :%20+7%B0C

That was sometimes empty and eagle visited there occasionally, maybe lately more often...
Today was first time , when I found this Kotka/Eagle1-camera...

[Ploughboy]

Great pictures, Ploughboy! it's great to have some variation in the scenery there. it's been so boringly sunny and bright there , excepting the few rainy days when it is boringly dull. the mist frontier in the background together with the sunshine on the nest is an interesting and rare combination.

are we confirmed/confident about three eggs in Nauvo? i think there are no official NestNews in Nauvo, are there? has any one seen/taken a picture of the Nauvo nest recently showing the content of the nest?

Hi Ame

This is the last picture from Seili's nest I have ...

Image source : Osprey webcam, Nauvo © Archipelago Sea.info - Turku University of Applied Sciences

[Ploughboy]

I found some more facts about Golden Eagle nest camera (Pudasjärvi, Finland)

The eagle camera is controlled remotely from a web server. After detecting movement in the nest, the
camera takes a picture and sends it wirelessly to the server via a GPRS connection. The server program makes the adjustments required for taking the picture and then stores into an archive and database.

[ame]

yeah, i also understood they have a movement detector there activating the camera, but i somehow understood that there's refreshment of the picture on regular basis, too, like Obs_erves mail showed... i'm not sure??

[ame]

Hi Ame

This is the last picture from Seili's nest I have ...

yees..., but no actual pictures of eggs, are there?

[Ploughboy]

News from Seili - Third egg confirmed!

http://www.saaristomeri.info/ajankohtai ... kset_2009/

5th April - first osprey returned
12th April - second osprey in the nest
14th April - three ospreys in the nest
30th April - first egg in the nest
2th May - second egg
7th May - three eggs in the nest

[NancyM]

did our Finnish members notice there was news in the breakfast show on Finnish TV1 on Apr 28th about an eaglet rescue operation in the bird-of-prey-hating part of Finland? (- for our non-Finnish members some background info: in the old times birds of prey were killed and an official reward was payed to the killers for each killed bird, because then it thought that the birds killed game and farm animals and reindeer. the birds are now protected but the killing still goes on especially in northern and eastern Finland, i.e. the reindeer husbandry area.)

This is a familiar scenario - in the US there was a bounty on eagles at one time, for the same reason - they were thought to harm livestock. and after we killed almost all of them, we have tried hard to bring them back.

this operation had been performed by people working with the 'Flight of the Eagle'-society (Kotkanlento in Finnish), which is based somewhere in NE Finland. they have nest cameras on eagles' nests and a bear camera etc (see their web pages; the address is below). it was really heart warming to see these men helping the eagles.

what happened was that a year ago (or two? edit: it was 2006)

I happened to discover this group in 2006, and watched that whole "operation" - I think it was the first year that the camera was in place. The men in charge were so concerned that they would do the right thing, and later they doubted themselves, and decided that they should not intervene again. But clearly they saved the lives of those two eaglets. I have many pictures saved to my computer ...

[ame]

hi Bociany
i tried to look for pictures of this operation or even some video (from the TV archives) but couldn't find any. are your pictures too difficult to find? it would be great if you could find and post some of them here.
yes, it is a tough decision whether to intervene or not... i think if the species is even slightly endangered then it is OK. and at least in Finland fire fighters are called to come and rescue crows and ducks and tits and squirrels (cats from trees ) etc almost daily around the country and everybody's happy when they come without hesitation! so why not save any animal in trouble (and not try to be too 'scientific' about it)!!

[Ploughboy]

Quite chilly but sunny morning at Seili's nest.

[06:45 EEST]
Image source: Weather Station Nauvo

The twitcher

Image source : Osprey webcam, Nauvo © Archipelago Sea.info - Turku University of Applied Sciences


Image source : Osprey webcam, Nauvo © Archipelago Sea.info - Turku University of Applied Sciences



Image source : Osprey webcam, Nauvo © Archipelago Sea.info - Turku University of Applied Sciences

All three eggs are in safe!

Image source : Osprey webcam, Nauvo © Archipelago Sea.info - Turku University of Applied Sciences

[Ploughboy]

Golden Eagle - Pudasjärvi

At least one eaglet hatched
http://www.panoraama.com/live/maakotka/ ... 070924.jpg

Congratulations!

[ame]

oh wow, that's great!! wonderful news!!
and it's great that all three eggs in Nauvo are safe,too. we have a lot of happy family news ahead of us! let's keep our fingers crossed that nothing unexpected happens...

[Olga]

Hello One week has gone. Life goes on in Nauvo!

Some views to the nest and panoramas from Seili, Nauvo.

Monday morning, 18th May



Tuesday, 19th May, there are the eggs!

at 16:30



at 16:37



at 16:38



16:41



16:42



16:42 zoom



Today!

at 22:57

[kittenface]

[Olga]

Fine shots, Kittenface

It has been a cloudy day today..

Edit at 22:30. There was a thunder storm around 16 o`clock, and the cam does not update..what a pity! Just hope the Ospreys are ok

[Olga]

The Ospray was protecting the eggs under a heavy rain, it was thunderstorm in the afternoon and also hail stones were falling..

even the cam have stopped at 16:04:41

[Olga]

I could not help borrowing thse two pictures from the Finnish discussion thread Saaristomeri

at 10:38



at 12:12

[Jo UK]

Thanks for bringing us those pics, renandeli.
I looked at this beautiful bird on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wild_Pandion.jpg
Keep on enlarging it - it is glorious!

An osprey is pandion haliaetus., but not a sea eagle. It is a sea hawk.
A White tailed Eagle is also Haliaeetus.
A Bald eagle is another Haliaeetus.

A golden eagle is Aquila.
Greater and lesser spotted eagles are Aquila.

Can someone tell us what are the differences between these two genus(es)?

[Olga]

Hi! good morning..

The cam is still down, and no news how the Osprays are (from Saarisromeri thread in Finnish).

I have a question: Do you remember to have seen a picture where there was three Osprays in same picture earlier in the spring . I didn't find such one. Have I only made that picture in my head?

People said in Finland that in this picture there is only two osprays. The 'third' wing is the tail of ospray in the air they claimed.. (ame's picture):

viewtopic.php?p=35608#p35608

I think (imagine?) that I have seen an other picture with three Osrays...