Estonian WTE Webcam 2016

[dani]

This is one cute baby chick. Absolutely adorable.

At 9:25ish something (wasn't paying attention to the time) this morning I came back and saw Anna laying on the eggs and the chick was somewhat off the cover. Anna seemed to be "feeding" the chick with nothing but saliva (or something that came drooling from her mouth). As small birds feed the babies with their vomited food, do the eagles do the same? This came to my mind when seeing this. Previously I've only seen them feeding from pieces of the fish.

No, they don't vomite, but saliva contains enzymes and other things which are important and good for baby. And moisture of course which is essential also. Ame and Mutikluti talked about this yesterday (11:44-11.46 am).

[Liz01]

This is one cute baby chick. Absolutely adorable.

At 9:25ish something (wasn't paying attention to the time) this morning I came back and saw Anna laying on the eggs and the chick was somewhat off the cover. Anna seemed to be "feeding" the chick with nothing but saliva (or something that came drooling from her mouth). As small birds feed the babies with their vomited food, do the eagles do the same? This came to my mind when seeing this. Previously I've only seen them feeding from pieces of the fish.

No, they don't vomite, but saliva contains enzymes and other things which are important and good for baby. And moisture of course which is essential also. Ame and Mutikluti talked about this yesterday (11:44-11.46 am).

it is also written, that the fish pices have to be with a lot of saliva, so that the chicks can swallow them

[dani]

it is also written, that the fish pices have to be with a lot of saliva, so that the chicks can swallow them

Thank You for the information. So wonderful to learn new things about the cuties.

[Mutikluti]

11.31- 11.33
Feeding.

[ame]

two feedings. Anna deals with the baby as an old master.
9:26


11:30


she will have no problems with the rest. or maybe in shoveling food fast enough into their mouths.
it gives me shivers to think about three Makonites or Durberts together.
and poor Uku...

[Olga]

11:54

[Mutikluti]

11.52
Uku brought a long stick, he put it behind the tree trunk.




11.53
Uku jumped on the branch...


Anna stood up, poor baby was on the back

[Mutikluti]

11.54
Anna flew away...


Uku flew from the branch in the nest...


He covered the chick and two eggs.

[ame]

Olga you got a picture of the yawn!
baby has such a pretty pink mouth.

11:52 Uku came and i think he brought a stick with him. Anna got up and kicked the baby topsy-turvy upside down. for a few seconds it waved all its small wings and tiny pink feet in the air, rested for a few seconds and then rolled up.
i have been wondering about the robber mask... are the eyes open yet? or is it like kitten or a dog pup: eyes open after a few days?


yes, Uku had a big stick with him.

[Mutikluti]

12.24
Uku rolled the eggs...his attention was more on the eggs... for a moment I saw behind the eggs a chick...

[sejana]

A small animation of this morning
Is this ok? Or they may be a bit bigger?

[BigDee]

two feedings. Anna deals with the baby as an old master.

She still has to work on it. She happens to drop fish pieces in front of the chick or tries to give the food altough she has nothing in the beak. She is improving these skills, but if I compare it with the way the female in the danish nest fed her chickens in their first days I know how a master feeding should look like

[bonehead]

Does the male feed the chicks at all? I remember reading somewhere of an incident with Golden Eagle where the female had died accidentally and the male kept on bringing food in to the nest. The chicks where finally found dead and the nest was full of prey beacause the male couldn´t feed the chicks!

[Liz01]

Does the male feed the chicks at all? I remember reading somewhere of an incident with Golden Eagle where the female had died accidentally and the male kept on bringing food in to the nest. The chicks where finally found dead and the nest was full of prey beacause the male couldn´t feed the chicks!

Last year, the male has also feeding the chick. It was on the latvian WTE nest.

[Owlie]

There is a feeding going on

[Mutikluti]

13.18
Uku stood up and began to eat fish...I think that he had a plan to feed chick.


13.19
Anna arrived..on the previous picture we can see Anna's arrival from far.


I think that Uku teached Anna how to feed kids.


13.20
Anna began to feed a chick...


Uku left at 13.24, Anna finished feeding at 13.27

[Hellem]

14:19 Anna is feeding and eating, Uku on the branch

14:21 Uku left

14:23 Feeding is over, Anna covers the chick and eggs

[Mutikluti]

14.15
Uku arrived


14.17
Uku took one fish and wanted it eat or feed to chick ( I don't know ) but Anna stopped such activity...she took away from Uku this fish.


Anna began to feed the chick.


14.21
Uku was gone, Anna continued the feeding....


14.23
Feeding was finished...

[Marfo]

Thank you tuomokoo for your video compilation!
You can see more of the behaviour in a video than on pictures alone. Great to see that Uku is very concerned and eager to help with their chick
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[Mutikluti]

15.25
Is it raining or snowing...something white fall down from the sky...