Estonian Eagle Owl Nest 2022, 2023, 2024

[Liz01]

..I was going to write " it has been an uneventful night so far..." BUT, where does the 3rd egg ...

Thank you very much Askja
and thanks for this great picture of three wonderful eggs ! such a nice surprise congrats to the third egg

I found two possible time stamps
23:50 looks promising




00:24! but here I think the egg were already there.


As you see.. nothing is for sure
it's also likely, of course, that she laid it in the time when the camera wasn't working.

[Liz01]

5:25 she leaves. Female and male are hooting nearby BTW: I see two eggs! Was the egg laid much earlier and was "hidden"




5:33 she covers the eggs

I still have my recording from yesterday. I'll watch the night again.. I could find nothing

1:41 Male is hooting, female leaves the nest ans surprises us with three eggs

[Liz01]

6:07 Male brings a prey in the nest box

[Liz01]

7:24 camera switches in daylight


7:47 the female is sleeping. She did not move all time.
thanks to the female ! I would like to see her eggs

[Liz01]

7:59 A wren visit the female. such a tiny bird!


8:12 she is sleeping
8:22 is looking to the right quite a while

[Liz01]

8:31 male and female WTE are calling! I thought I had another camera open - but not!
I will check it again

8:30:54 White tailed eagles are calling.. male and female

[Liz01]

8:42 she is rolling the eggs. blackbirds are pesky again.
8:44 a crow is calling nearby
9:22:10 a black bird




9:33 if Askja hadn't seen that today, we wouldn't have known about 3 eggs!
Female doesn't get up.. I wait and wait

[Liz01]

9:58 the stream is buffering..the next egg after that

10:24 the stream is back


10:27 she is rolling invisible eggs .

[Liz01]

There are too much feathers on her


10:46 she is preening her leg and shows the eggs


she's kidding us

[Liz01]

11:05 Male is hooting, she answers

11:14 egg rolling .. two eggs are visible

I found the third egg


Now let's wait until we can see all 3 in full size and color. That could happen if she leaves the nest. soon

11:39 blackbirds are searching the forest floor for food. You hear and see it. they turn over the leaves
11:42 crows and a middle spotted woodpecker are calling

11:52 great tit for a short visit

[Liz01]

12:20 she is rolling her eggs .. I hope all are visible! hmmm

[Askja]

All,
Hello Liz!
Thank you for "finding" that third egg too, I half expected it to be an optical illusion on my part

...we wouldn't have known about 3 eggs!

If we had never seen another egg... Imagine our utter astonishment if three (or even four) little heads would pop up over the nest rim from the known 2 eggs!

About possible timestamps: yes, I've re-played many of them in full time too, but there was never what you would expect beforehand as *pressing* or *hard breathing*. Could it be that generally later eggs just plop out more easily, and therefore unnoticed by us?

[Liz01]

....
About possible timestamps: yes, I've re-played many of them in full time too, but there was never what you would expect beforehand as *pressing* or *hard breathing*. Could it be that generally later eggs just plop out more easily, and therefore unnoticed by us?

I think we should at least have seen signs. A hunched back.. But there was nothing to see. In the end she just stood and then preened herself.

Not changeable. At least we know that this egg was also laid in the expected time.

13:23 Male starts hooting

[Liz01]

14:24 Male is hooting
14:26 continues
it is snowing slightly
14:28 huuhuuu says the male .. she is snoozing


14:30 he's still hooting

[Liz01]

Yana re wrote: ​14:18:20 Орел какой-то пролетает / Some kind of eagle flies by.
thank you!

14:09 a big bird landed on the right on a branch.. could be a buzzard?


14:17 the bird is still there

took off! kind of a false start I thought he was doing a somersault


14:18 flies through the nest tree


Female just ignored the buzzard. She does not respond to any visitor?

[Liz01]

Buzzard visit the female.






16:09 she is sleeping
16:24 it's snowing

[Liz01]

16:38 both are talking

17:00 the stream stops working
it works again
17:04 female is rolling the eggs
17:05:15 male starts hooting

[Liz01]

three eggs are visible

19:09 Male is hooting, she leaves the nest


Askja, here we go finally in daylight and clearly visible.


19:12 she comes back

The Video. there was a lot of hooting till she came back

[Liz01]

20:15 she is yawning


20:22 back to two eggs she is rolling the eggs

[Askja]

God evening All!

The transmission is bad tonight, the stream tottering along with breaks from a few seconds to several minutes, the rest is jumpy and often without sound.

On the other hand, all seems very quiet, and - up to midnight - Lady B. got only up twice or thrice for preening herself and/or rolling her eggs.

Btw., wouldn't it be nice to get names for Mr. and Mrs. Bubo?