Latvian WtE nest webcamera Juras-erglis Durbe 2022

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White-tailed sea eagles in Latvia: Juras-Erglis 2022


A new topic for the new year!


The beginning season is direct continuation to the previous season as the camera has been working with a few breaks. You may catch up where we came from here:
viewtopic.php?p=836155#p836155

Camera links

The video transmission from the nest is streaming in Youtube, presently
(starting from 22nd May 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVheXIP_t4
If the address should change for some reason, I'll keep the old addresses here in case someone would need then later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQu9kZeQtZ0 )

The address of the Youtube may sometimes change. If this should happen the new address can be found by making a search 'juras erglis webcamera' in the Youtube. The link to the WTE camera, as well as the other the live cameras of Latvia's Nature Fund LDF (Latvijas dabas fonds), can also be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIcQwg ... hMBclDJENw
The WTE camera is not on the top of the list so you need to scroll down a little. In Latvian it is called "LDF Jūras ērglis tiešraide".
We'll try to remember to update the address here if it changes. (Remind us if we don't!)
If you have trouble finding the camera please let us know (write to ame or Liz01) and we'll try to help.

The Youtube stream can be scrolled back in time 12 hours from present. This way it is possible to see what happened at the nest during the previous 12 hours. This makes it also possible to record the delayed stream with some screen recording program. From the Settings-button in the lower right corner one can adjust the resolution of the picture. For recordings it's best to use as high resolution as possible.

The stream can also be viewed (for example) on Potplayer or with VLC player by opening the same address as for YouTube. Potplayer can also be used for recording the Youtube stream and for taking snapshots from the stream either live or from recorded video. Potplayer can also be used to record delayed stream from screen. VLC can take screen snapshots and record the stream.
The overall use of Potplayer is discussed here:
viewtopic.php?p=499450#p499450
The use of VLC player is discussed here:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=739

There are also several other screen recording programs which can be used for recording the stream. The use of some of them are also discussed in the Questions and help-topic:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=770


Working hours of the camera

Normally during the season this camera is operating 24/7, thanks to the installation of a methanol fuel cell power system in Autumn 2017. The fuel cell provides power to the camera system when the solar cells will not get enough sunlight to feed the batteries.
In wintertime the stream is switched off for the night time. In the darkest time of the winter the camera working hours have been approximately 6 am - 8 pm.

The camera time is the local, Eastern European Time EET which is 2 hours ahead of GMT (or Greenwich/London time), and one hour ahead of the Central European Time CET. In summertime the daylight saving time adds one more hour to GMT.
Overseas viewers please note: if you see a black screen check if you can see the time stamp in the lower left corner with the clock running. It may be night time in Latvia and then the camera shows darkness.

The camera clock normally runs somewhat delayed compared to the 'real' time (your computer time). This delay is quite normal and may vary from time to time from a few seconds to even some minutes. The delay is due to the data transmission chain and its efficiency, and it mainly depends on the speed of each viewer's own internet connection. Therefore it is important that the camera time is given when events at the nest are reported, because the camera time is 'the real time' for the nest which is the same for all of us. It's also strongly recommended that the camera's date&time stamp is not removed from any pictures that are posted. Without the time stamp the picture will only have an artistic value (which is naturally not overlooked! but it will not be useful for ornithologists).

Sometimes there may be a malfunction in the streaming system. If refreshing of the Youtube-window or reopening/restarting of Potplayer (or restarting your pc or router in extreme cases) will not help, please report either ame or Liz01 and we'll try to look for help.

I have noticed that Potplayer version 210729(1.7.21526) can record Youtube stream for as long as there is space on the hard disk (a later version could record only 6 hours; disable updates!) If you are recording continuously it's wise to split files at certain intervals. This version can also survive shorter breaks in the stream and even wait and try restarting during the night pause of the stream and start recording as soon as the camera wakes up in the morning. Convenient! (Sometimes there is, however, some malfunction and restart fails, but this happens very seldom.)

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Important events at the nest

Events will be added to this list as times goes on and interesting and important events take place.

Milda started the season with her partner Mr L with whom she had settled after the dramatic events in the previous spring.

• Jan 25 Milda made the first material delivery to the nest: a green spruce twig. Mr L brought a small stick right after her. The work to improve the nest for new breeding began.
  viewtopic.php?p=837417#p837417

• Feb 13 The first mating on the nest at 13:52.
  viewtopic.php?p=838539#p838539

• Feb 18 Mr L was seen for the last time leaving the nest at 17:42. The next day was rainy and stormy and no eagle was observed.

• Feb 20 Milda visited the nest alone in the morning at 8:00 - 10:40 and 11:41 - 12:37.
  At 13:47 - 14:21 a male eagle visited. This was probably not Mr L.
  viewtopic.php?p=839058#p839058
  15:16 a female and male eagle were heard calling far.
  At 15:17 - 15:49 a strange male visited.
  17:00 the stranger arrived again and two minutes later Milda arrived. They quarrelled.
  At 17:54 Milda flew out. The stranger stayed till 18:05. He had displaced Mr L who was never seen again.
  People began calling the new male with the 'name' Mr S (S for stranger or svešinieks in Latvian).

• Feb 21 Mr S began nest work as if he had been working here for weeks. Milda visited the nest in the morning for 8 min, and in the afternoon for about an hour, when she quarrelled with Mr S.
  viewtopic.php?p=839121#p839121
  Feb 22 Milda brought a spruce twig in the morning and stayed 4 min. Mr S worked "as usual" all along the day. Milda brought sticks, too.
  At 17:00 Milda brought a big stick. She had some argument with Mr S who was at the nest, too. 17:23 both flew away.
  viewtopic.php?p=839219#p839219

• Feb 23 Mr S was on the top branch when the camera started at 7 am.
  viewtopic.php?p=839311#p839311
  Milda brought a stick at 7:21. At 7:23 Mr S tried to mate with Milda but she refused. At 7:44 they flew out.
  At 11:55 both flew to the nest after which the first successful mating occurred.
  viewtopic.php?p=839367#p839367
  On the next day Milda made only a short visit during which no mating took place. Starting from Feb 25 regular and frequents matings took place.

• March 1 Mr S made the first food delivery to the nest: a pine marten. Milda arrived right after him but Mr S flew away with his prey.
  viewtopic.php?p=840070#p840070
  This was a scene which was to be repeated numerous times during the spring: Mr S would bring food to the nest and then fly away with it without giving anything to Milda.

• March 15 Milda laid the first egg at 16:37.
  viewtopic.php?p=842036#p842036

• March 16 Mr S was been given a name by Jānis Ķuze: he is Voldis.
  viewtopic.php?p=842210#p842210

• March 18 Milda laid the second egg at 18:12.
  viewtopic.php?p=842781#p842781
  Mr S proved to be a very unreliable incubator. He often stayed on the eggs only for short periods of time and left them unshielded so that Milda had to return to nest duty before she could fly to get food.

• March 23 Voldis was in nest duty, staying for a longer time when a Latvian female H426 flew first to the nest tree top and at 17:41 jumped to the nest. Voldis stood up and protested but could not banish the strange female. She broke and ate the eggs one by one. At 18:31 she flew out and only little less than 2 min later Milda flew home. The breeding for this season was cancelled.
  viewtopic.php?p=843740#p843740
  The matings, however continued till at least April 15. A mating attempt was seen even as late as on August 13!

The eagles visited the nest occasionally. Especially in the autumn Voldis came alone. In the summer other birds of prey showed interest in the nest: a pair of ospreys (actually 3!) visited the nest in a few days, and then a pair of hobbies came to check the luxury penthouse.

search keyword: searchnestsummary

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Introduction


Our female Milda has a new partner who so far has no better name than Mr L (or K Kungs in Dabasdati forum). Milda's previous husband Raimis disappeared last spring in the middle of the incubation and their clutch was eventually destroyed. Mr L joined Milda soon after that and became gradually accepted by Milda. Let's wish the new couple a successful season 2022!


It turned out later that Mr L was replaced in the middle of mating season by another male who got the name Voldis.

Below you can read the introduction for this nest camera, given Latvian Dabasdati YT channel. The height of the nest is a little different in the introduction in Latvian version. There the height is 25 m.

The White-tailed Eagle's nest can be observed live since 2015 and is located in Kurzeme, at Durbe Municipality. This breeding area has been known since 2014. The nest is built on top of an old spruce tree, which was once broken by wind or snow. Several branches have grown around the fracture, forming a fork suitable for building a nest at a height of about 30 metres. The camera was installed on one of the top branches at the end of January 2015. The nest is interesting because it is built in a spruce – the white-tailed eagles rarely choose to nest in spruces –, at the time of its location, this was only the fourth known nest built in a spruce in Latvia. About a half of all white-tailed eagle nests are built in pines, a third in aspens and to a lesser extent in birches, black alders and oaks. In spruces, nests are usually built on such broken ends and are usually located high above the ground.
In 2015, the eagle couple Durbe and Roberts successfully raised one nestling – Durberts. In 2016 and 2017, the residents of the nest changed several times, and breeding was not started in either of the two years. In 2018, a couple of White-tailed Eagles, who resided here since March 2017 and were given the names Milda and Raimis, successfully bred in this nest. The breeding was successful also in 2019 and 2020.

https://forums.dabasdati.lv/viewtopic.p ... 93#p108693

For previous seasons please return to these pages:
2015 - 2017:
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 20#p558920
2018 the important events:
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 18#p558918
2019 the important events:
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 57#p627157
2020 the important events:
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 36#p704636
2021 the important events:
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 88#p772788

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Identification of the eagles

Knowing who is who on the nest is not a problem if at least one of the inhabitants wears rings. Unfortunately neither Milda nor Mr L have rings and therefore we have to look for details in their appearance or hear their voices. In the introduction of the year 2020 topic you will find a thorough discussion of how to separate female and male eagles in general.
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 39#p704639

albicilla found a very useful article which describes the development of the outer appearance, including plumage of WTEs with age:
http://www.nof.nu/rrk/Bestamningsartikl ... y0cSPSAG7E
The article is in Swedish (with a summary in the end in English) but there are a lot of pictures illustrating the changes.
albicilla's post:
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 75#p770175

The plumages of adult eagles don't change much in the yearly moult so the tail patterns remain almost unchanged from one year to the next. The WTE have black spots in their white tails which form individual patterns and allow identification of different eagles to certain degree.
Below are pictures which hopefully will help to identify Milda and Mr L.
- Mr L is now history and Milda has a new partner, Voldis.
The pictures are not the best and clearest, but that is the normal situation. In real life we usually don't see the eagles in optimal circumstances.
Some more pictures to help identify the eagles you will find here:
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 46#p838446

The tail patterns of Milda and Mr L are not very different so it's not always very simple to tell who is who, but usually it is possible.
Both have small spots but Milda's spots are round(ish) while the spots in Mr L's tail are like small moon crescents lying on their back.
A more clear difference is that the border between the white tail and the dark back is (usually) clear and sharp in Milda's tail. The border in Mr L's tail is uneven and broken: there are dark "rays" stretching down on the white. The pattern of these rays also chances from day to day, probably depending on how the dark and white feathers overlap each other on different days. Milda's tail is much less variable.


Milda has no spots in the tips of her tail feathers. Mr L has small dark spots on the tips of his tail feathers but it's usually very difficult to see them, especially against dark background.

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Milda's tail

Milda has two or sometimes three small more or less round spots in a roundish group or a horizontal row in her otherwise white tail. Sometimes the middle spot is hiding and only two spots can be seen. Sometimes her spots are overlap each other so that they form one larger spot. The borderline between her white tail and dark back is clear and smooth and regular.

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Mr L's tail

Mr L has much less dark in his tail than Raimis had. It's very difficult to estimate his age but he is probably about the same age as Raimis was when he came here, at least 6 CY. The spots in Mr L's tail are even smaller than Milda's spots and they are thin and curved like little moon crescents. Usually they lie in a horizontal row but their relative positions change.


Against white snow it's possible to see that the tips of the tail feathers of Mr L are black. The tip of Milda's tail is white.


On Mr L's tail the largest dark spots are on the tips on the outermost feathers.

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The location of the nest

The location of the nest is in Durbe County near the city Liepāja in Western Latvia, marked with blue line in the maps below. The maps were provided by Jānis Ķuze.


There is one big lake, Durbes ezers, with a nature reserve area. There are also other water areas in the county, both natural and artificial. There is a fish farm in Skrunda (on the right side of the map) with large ponds which are drained for harvesting the fish in autumns. Plenty of fish remain in the ponds after they are drained and the ponds lure flocks of WTEs both young and adult to feed. The fish in shallow water are easy catch for the young eaglets who are learning to fish. Thus the fish ponds can be called their "school".

this nest is located not far away from several farmsteads, that is the reason why dogs can be heard, some of the chainsaws are coming from there as well. ...

Besides dogs we have heard voices of all kinds of farm animals to the nest over the years: cows, cocks, even turkeys.

The nest site was granted a micro reserve status in October 2015. Jānis Ķuze wrote about it in Dabasdati forum on Oct 12 2015:
http://dabasdati.lv/forums/viewtopic.php?p=53464#p53464
Translated with the help of Google translator:
"We just got a message from the State Forest Service - nest is officially established microreserve! It is surrounded by a wide buffer zone in which forestry activities are not allowed during the nesting season. Thus, from the forest to disturb the work, this place is now protected."

We may get some clues about the location of the nest from what we see and hear over the camera. Based on these clues it is possible to narrow down the location of the nest in more detail. We ask every one of you to keep all detailed information, even speculations about the location to yourselves. Please also do not share any further information about the location anywhere in the internet, not in this forum nor anywhere else. More detailed information of the location of the nest may encourage some people to go and seek the nest in nature. Nest tourism like this is the last thing that is needed here in the delicate breeding time. People near the nest may frighten parents away from the nest and leave eggs or chicks unprotected from weather and predators. Thus an intrusion may lead to destruction of the clutch.
Thank you for your co-operation.

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The nest and its surroundings 1/4

The nest is built in the top of a spruce which has been broken possibly in a storm many years ago. After that several side branches have started to grow as replacement tops. The biggest branch on the right of the nest in these pictures has won the race of becoming the new top. This is also the trunk which we see in the left side of the camera view. The nest is about 25 m above the ground.

The nest is described in more detail here:
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 03#p433903
and here:
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 69#p627169

Below is a picture made of Tringa's photograph where the branches which we can see in the camera are marked. The picture was taken from the direction to which our camera looks. Thus the branches which we see in the live camera on the left are on the right side of this picture. One special branch is also shown: the "poop branch". The name came naturally since Durberta painted this branch white by shooting poop on it very often. By the end of the season 2015 it was all white. The poop branch also frames the top of our camera view. An ellipse shows the place where the camera is most probably attached to.


Below is a picture of the camera attached to the tree. It is camouflaged with plastic Christmas decoration twigs.


In summers 2018 and 2019 the eaglets Robis and Vilnis (2018) and Rika and Miks (2019) drew out nest sticks one by one as part of their catching exercises. In both years the eaglets managed to tear apart their nests totally to the last stick. Thus we have been able to see what the foundation of the nest is. In this picture also the microphone can be seen (encircled with a yellow line) together with a visiting nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes).


Later in the autumns of both these years the parents Milda and Raimis have rebuilt the nest so that by the change of the year the nest was almost ready for breeding in each year. In 2020 the eaglets Malda and Reinis were more gentle with the nest than their older siblings and didn't tear it down. Milda and Raimis didn't need to begin rebuilding the nest in the autumn from "ground zero". In 2021 the clutch was destroyed in the middle of hatching phase and the nest remained as whole. Milda and Mr L have rebuilt the nest a lot already during the autumn 2021 and so now the nest is bigger than ever in the beginning of the season.

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The nest and its surroundings 2/4

The closest trees are shown and named in the following for ease of referring to them. In the picture below are marked the trees behind the nest and the Observation Oak on the right. There were three big oaks together almost side by side. The leftmost of them (A) used to be a favourite tree of Durbe and Robert in the first season in 2015. Therefore it was called the Parent's Oak. In the summer 2015 a lightning bolt struck the Parents' Oak, cutting it in the middle and splitting the remaining trunk into two halves which are probably still standing but are now invisible behind the nest which is very high now. The Parents' Oak seemed to be at a larger distance than the other oaks and it still looked much bigger than the remaining two oaks in the middle so it was in reality much bigger than the remaining tree B and C, the Two Sisters*.
A = the remains of the Parents' Oak
B, C = the remaining oaks, the "Two Sisters". Behind the Sisters there are more oaks, the Cousins They are better visible when the trees have no leaves.
The branch of the nest tree which is hanging partly in front of the Sisters and the Observation Oak is called the Poop Branch since 2015 when Durbertina, the first eaglet on this nest, painted this branch white.
OO = the present Observation Oak

On May 30 2021 the sunlight was rather favourable to see individual trees in the meadow. i made a new picture showing the big trees and their names. on the right the Observation Oak which has been a favourite place for the eagles. in the centre the Two Sisters (and their Cousins behind them; they can't be seen anymore since the Sisters are dressed now). on the left there are side by side two oaks which have not have had names so far. i suggest that they'd be called the Twins. on their right side, farther than them (or smaller) is the Observation Oak 2 (OO2) which is closest to the swan pond.


The fish-eye optics of the camera lens makes the images curved so that the centre of the picture is stretched and the horizon becomes curved. The picture below shows the landscape like it probably is in reality. The horizon is straight and the nest level is also more or less flat and horizontal.
This photo is made by Nordri with a program which straightens images of a fish-eye lens. The trees on the ground are, however, curved and don't stand vertically.

* The names "Sisters" and "Cousins" originate from my association to Anton Chekhov's play "Three sisters". I imagined that these three oaks might originate from the same parent tree and thus they would be sisters. The neighbouring other oaks would not be as close relatives and thus they would be Cousins. Later we have seen, however, that the Sisters aren't alike each other at all. The Left Sister keeps her leaves much longer in the autumn when the Right Sister is naked already.

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The nest and its surroundings 3/4


On Dec 10 2020 (11 days before the Winter Solstice) the Sun rose at about 9:17 almost in the centre of our camera view. The old camera was in use.


In the picture below is a sky map which shows the sector of sky which we can see (the orange lines). It is a combination of information of three different maps. The basis of the map is the sky in the morning at sunrise on Dec 10 2020 at 9:17 local time (7:17 UTC).
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 44#p771444
The left side of the view is slightly North of east (sunrise is on the left) and the right side is slightly west of south (the highest sun at noontime is on the right).


The position of the Moon is added on Dec 8 at 0:23 local time when the Moon was near the top left corner of the camera view. In the picture below the Moon is on the left, a little north of east.
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 67#p771267

The position of the Sun on Dec 7 at 13:11 local time (11:11 UTC) is added in the bottom of the picture. At this time the Sun was seen near the top right corner of our camera view.
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 24#p771224

The sky map is made thinking that the viewer is lying on her/his back with the head to the north and legs to the south. Thus the west is on the right in the sky map and east is on the left. Straight lines from north to south and from east to west are drawn in the picture. These lines cross at the zenith which is the highest point in the sky above the camera. The outer edge of the map is the horizon. As one can see both the leftmost and rightmost points which are in the top corners of the camera view are very near the horizon. Due to the curvature of the horizon in the camera view the highest point which we can see in the camera is even closer to the horizon. This means that actually we can see only a very narrow strip of the sky in the camera view. The upper limit of our visual range is not marked in the picture.

In the table on the picture the azimuth angle in the rightmost column is a measure of the position of the Sun and the Moon on the map, a "compass reading". -99 degrees for the Moon tells that it was 9 degrees north of east (east is azimuth -90 degrees). The azimuth angle +10 degrees of the Sun on the right tells that the Sun was 10 degrees west of south (south is azimuth 0 degrees). The full viewing angle of the camera is thus about 110 degrees. The nominal viewing angle of the camera, given by the manufacturer in the specifications of the camera, is 107 degrees. The 110 degrees obtained above is well in agreement with the nominal value.

Here are two links to posts where one may see a comparison of the camera view with the sky map. (Sometimes Photobucket pictures are totally invisible. This is due to the "customer policy" of the Photobucket. )
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 36#p510236
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 02#p510702

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The nest and its surroundings 4/4

The new camera was installed on Dec 12 2021. We don't know it's specifications, but they are probably more or less the same as the old camera's. The new camera looks slightly more to the east than the old one (the tele tower is now out of our sight).

The picture below shows the sunrise on the Winter Solstice morning on Dec 21 2021. On Winter Solstice the Sun rises closest to the south. In the Spring the Sun begins to rise well out of the left side of our view.

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Other information


Dabasdati forum

An introduction to the Latvian nest cameras is given here:
http://ldf.lv/lv/tiesraide
and information in English:
https://ldf.lv/en/webcams
The live camera topics are under the title "Tiešsaistes kameras Latvijā Nature webcams in Latvia":
https://forums.dabasdati.lv/viewforum.php?f=18

The nest life on the various camera nests is followed in the Latvian Dabasdati forum (often DD forum or just DD or DDF for short like LK or LKF for Looduskalender forum):
https://forums.dabasdati.lv/viewforum.php?f=25

The WTE topics in DDF (Jūras ērglis) can be found here:
https://forums.dabasdati.lv/viewforum.php?f=27

The Durbe 2022 topic in DDF
Eagle events chronologically:
https://forums.dabasdati.lv/viewtopic.p ... 46#p309046
Other birds observed at the nest:
https://forums.dabasdati.lv/viewtopic.p ... 57#p309057

The language of the DD forum is Latvian. You can try your luck with some translator machine to communicate there.
Most of the Latvian members understand English, too. Some of the DD members are members in LK, and vice versa.
Google Translator is not always reliable. It's sometimes badly corrupted for Latvian language (some comedians keep changing meanings of words). Therefore it is perhaps best to write your post in DDF in English adding the translation. Then the moderators can correct the translation if necessary.
See below Latvijas putni/Latvian birdlist!

Facebook group

Latvijas Dabas fonda putnu tiešraides (Live broadcasts of birds of the Latvian Fund for Nature)
https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event= ... 3269692018


Youtube chat

The events on the nest and around it in the forest are also commented in the chat on the Youtube page where the camera is streaming. The topics on the chat are less limited than in the DD forum or our LK forum. Often the comments may hover around quite other things than the nest events.
The chat is multilingual. The chat is reset each time when you shut down your web connection or refresh the browser window. When reopening the comments from the last hour are shown. Older comments are not stored anywhere.


Weather in Durbe, Latvia

Some websites where one can see the weather forecast for Durbe county, Latvia.
http://www.yr.no/place/Latvia/Other/Durbe/
http://www.accuweather.com/en/lv/durbe/ ... ast/224453
https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/we ... via_460171
https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/country ... tryCode=44
https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/city.html?cityId=176
https://www.windy.com/?46.770,7.646.5

One can search for weather information for using Liepāja, too, since it is the closest larger city near Durbe.


Sky in Durbe, Latvia

This is a nice site where you can create the sky map for any location on any time.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

Here the location is set to Durbe, Latvia. Just select the time which you want. Note, that the program uses the UTC time which is 2 hours less than local time in Latvia (in summertime the difference is 3 hours).
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yourhor ... &elements=

Sunrise and sunset data for Durbe can be found here:
https://sunrise-sunset.org/search?locat ... 1#calendar


Hunting calendar in Latvia

Every now and then there is a question when hunting in Latvia is possible.
https://www.lathunt.lv/page.php?id=season


Information about donating money for the benefit of the nest camera

The livestreams of Latvian Fund for Nature are supported by donations of viewers. Donate here: https://ldf.lv/en/support-lfn
or buy T-shirt here: https://ej.uz/96cj


General information

Latvijas putni or Latvian Birdlist: list of Latvian birds with information about them.
This is sometimes useful when GT cannot translate birds' names correctly.
https://www.latvijasputni.lv/en/birdlist-latvia.html

Not only about eagles but some of these links give information about birds' breeding in general.
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 03#p685803

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Frequently asked questions FAQ

There are some questions about eagles and their breeding which rise repeatedly over and again during nesting seasons. Answers to these questions are looked for and given during the season(s), but often they are difficult to find afterwards.

Therefore keywords for making searches for finding the answers are added in the posts containing answers. Below is a list of these keywords. This list will be supplemented as new keywords are found useful.

• searcheggdevelopment for searching posts with answers concerning processes involving mating behaviour and development of eggs before and after egg-laying.

• searchhatching for searching posts about when and how chicks hatch.

• searchringing for searching information about ring-marking (or banding) of eaglets or other information about marking eaglets with rings or radio transmitters.

• searchfledging for searching posts about how and when eaglets fledge.

• searchnestsummary for searching for a short summary of the events during a nesting season.
  For the Latvian nest in Durbe the keyword is: searchnestsummaryDurbe

• searchliterature for searching references (articles, books etc) about WTEs.

• searchcameradelay for searching information on the delay of the camera time relative to 'real' time.

Advice about how to make searches in the forum can be found in the Questions and help -topic here:
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... ?f=3&t=595

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Ringed eagle visitors at the nest 2022

The list will be updated here if and when some ringed eagles will be identified here.
(If i forget to do this in reasonable time please remind me!)

• March 23 Latvian H426, a young female who was ringed by Jānis Ķuze in the vicinity of Jaunpils on 25.05.2016.
  viewtopic.php?p=843740#p843740

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  This was a very unfortunate visit since this eagle destroyed the breeding by eating the eggs.

• April 15 Latvian H492 who was ringed on 29.05.2017 by Jānis Ķuze in SW Kurzeme, in the area between Priekuli, Liepāja and Papi as the only young in the nest. This is the first control of this bird.
  viewtopic.php?p=847376#p847376

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  https://forums.dabasdati.lv/viewtopic.p ... 20#p328320

• July 21 Latvian H670 who was ringed on 20.05.2021 by Jānis Ķuze in S Kurzeme as the only young in the nest. This is the first control of this bird.
  
  viewtopic.php?p=870718#p870718

• July 21 - July 22 an osprey with red&white ring with a rather faded code visited the nest, first with a girlfriend with a light breast and then changed to a new girlfriend who had very dark brown breast. The females had a fight in between and the Brunette won the Blondie. The ospreys obviously planned to make the nest their new home.
  
  viewtopic.php?p=870981#p870981
  
  Aigars Kalvāns informed that he thinks that the code is G58. He ringed this bird on 30.06.2018 ~11 km from Durbe webcam nest. Sexed as male by DNA testing.
  The osprey episode begins here:
  viewtopic.php?p=870713#p870713

• October 11 Latvian H678 ringed by Jānis Ķuze in a nest with two siblings on 25.05.2021 on the W coast of Latvia. This is the first recovery. Another of those two birds has been seen as well, last December at feeder in N Kurzeme.
  
  viewtopic.php?p=880392#p880392

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i'll need to make some updates later but now....
welcome to the New Year!

[Abigyl]

SATURDAY, JANUARY 1st 2022


HAPPY NEW YEAR

Many thanks and best wishes to Janis & Co and many excuses to Mr. B for all the early wake-ups...

Last but not least... Best wishes and thanks to Ame! Let's hope for an easy and fruitful season with the new couple

[Liz01]

Good Morning everyone and

ame, thank you very much for opening the new topic!

I hope for a great season and a name for Mr. L

[ame]

good morning all and Happy New Year!

almost all snow has melted on the nest. still what a contrast to the two pictures above: Winter and Summer.

[Liz01]

10:36 A raven visit the nest


Is interested on the deer leg


10:37 off he goes again