Looduskalender

crow v. linda carries on - just saw a shadow of the crow (plus lots of crow song), overhead... linda yells

10:19h Raven disturbed

I have pictures of the crow incident, at least of the crow sitting and both watching it. But I can post them only in the evening, when I'm at home!

i have a recording of the crow's visit at 9:29.


after the crow was gone Linda jumped from the left brach to the nest and Sulev left.

sound is again badly misplaced, because this is re-recorded from a long recording.
(i had to take the cat to a vet because of urine bladder infection and i left VLC on recording in the meanwhile.)

i took some snapshots of the video. soon after the crow had come (and flown out of the picture again) Linda hurried back home for defence.




she flew around the nest and curved back to make a larger circle to the right.

then Linda flew back to the nest and landed on the left branch.

the crow followed Linda and apparently made some unpleasant voices to the eagles.
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at last at 9:30 the crow flew away.

Linda scratched her beak...


... jumped to the nest




... and Sulev left.

sorry: 4 pictures is over the limit but for once...

it's such a beautiful day. it's been mostly quiet at the nest.
cranes have called, first near at 12:04


and right after that at 12:07 a little further: http://youtu.be/VGzj15PlW1c

12:09 once some seagulls flew by and made Linda call.
(were they mew gulls? or terns? i can't tell... )

sound and picture asynchronous again, sorry but it can't be helped.

after that Linda turned the eggs. someone is building something at the farm: i have heard hammering sometimes. there's also the sound of a circular saw. - i think that the little bird who is calling near the nest quite often is a nuthatch.

linda had been looking intently around. sulev came and sat on the branch nearby - to support her? they yelled together and now he is still there...

I think linda doesn't want to get off the eggs!



edit: 12.47 linda stretches briefly and flies away - sulev takes over

Poor Sulev, it looks to be too warm for him. What will he and Linda do, when it's +15C?

sulev is doing that thing of keeping his beak open - quite a lot!

sulev just had a big old yell at something up above...

a crow just flew by... sulev looks intently...

eagle-cam time: 14.10 sulev and linda do a change over. I don't know if linda brought anything with her because her back was turned to the cam. sulev had yelled out a couple of minutes earlier.

i've got videos of the changes Linda and Sulev have made.
12:40 Sulev came and landed on the left branch. both called loud to each other. i could not see what was so special that it needed so much noise.




Sulev sat on the side branch rather long and Linda talked to him some more.


- maybe there were faint voices of geese in the distance, too.
http://youtu.be/Q1ZWIaGqsv8

12:47 Linda got up, made some stretches and took off.

in less than 10 s Sulev jumped to the nest and went down to the eggs.

14:08 Sulev suddenly called loud for a few seconds. maybe he saw Linda coming...
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he got up...