Estonian Osprey Nest (Marko & Miina) 2022

[Bea]

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Welcome to the 11. season on this nest!

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YouTube camera link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtrLLEhX_f0

In case this camera link should not work, please visit the YouTube channel of Kotkaklubi to get the current link

Kotkaklubi - Estonian Eagle Club channel on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCvBXT ... Saqd19N0Sg

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Nest is located in South Estonia, Võrumaa.
A military base is close, so it is not unusal to hear motor sounds from trucks and other vehicles, sometimes even shots.

A fish farm, as well as a river, is not far, so good hunting conditions for Ospreys.

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Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) reach body heights of 50-66 cm, and wingspans of 1,27 - 1,74 m. Females are bigger than males.

- Winglength ♂ 448 bis 495 mm ♀ 470 bis 518 mm
- Weight ♂ 1,12 bis 1,74 kg ♀ 1,21 bis 2,05 kg

Usually two or three eggs are laid and incubated 36-41 days.
Young Ospreys fledge after 50-54 days.

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We ask members to post no more than three pictures plus one video per posting

Too many or too big pictures/videos will be edited/deleted by admins/mods.

Please add camera time to your posts/pictures/observations! Thank you!

[Bea]

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Main events 2022

15. April --- Camera starts transmission for public, Miina and Marko already on the nest, we don´t know when they arrived

20. April --- Egg #1 is laid https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 49#p848649

23. April --- Egg #2 is laid https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 22#p849322

28. April --- Egg #3 is visible for the first time, after a longer camera drop out https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 36#p850436


29. May --- Ospret #1 hatches https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 83#p857583

30. May --- Ospret #2 hatches https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 90#p857790

1. June --- Ospret #3 hatches https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 63#p858663

4. June --- Smallest ospret didn´t make it and passed away https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 56#p859556

4. June --- Miina removes the little dead body from the nest https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 99#p859799


Complete camera drop out froum 19. June to 7. July, due to a lightning strike

5. July --- Urmas Sellis and Omar Neiland went to the nest to ring the osprets and repair the cam. The nest was empty, no osprets, only feathers of two osprets under the nest tree. It is assumed, that again a Goshawk took the osprets from the nest.
https://www.looduskalender.ee/n/node/6836

[Bea]

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[Bea]

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[Bea]

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Hello Osprey fans

We are at the start of the new season and I want to try something new, a kind of addition to the first and/or second page.

I will document the Main Events 2022 as usual and like in previous years, but I´d like to offer you observers to reserve a post on the first or second page (just like you can get it when the cams start) to give you the possibility to document more and additional behaviours/events or things like that, which are not directly "Main Events", but remarkable though.

Maybe you observe an unexpected, sudden and not explainable behaviour, we had something like this some years ago, when two female osprets began to show some strong aggression to the female or when the female at the Latvian nest began to cast pellets repeatedly and more than it can be expected - just as two examples about what I am thinking about.

Such events are interesting, but often "sink" among all other posts, but when we can have a link to them on the first page/s, we can find them back easily.

The maximum amount for links in one post is limited to 20 (I hope I remember this right) and you can edit your post at any time, we have no time limit for editing own posts here in LK.

I hope that I could explain my intention good and understandable enough, if not - please let me know and I hope that some of you are interested to participate in this "experiment".

Let´s hope that our osprey cams will start soon!

Thanks in advance!

[Florinda]

Hellem, yes, these are our two heroes
this face cannot lie

Miina 2022

[Hellem]

all

April 14 at 23:38 the cam started


April 15

5:31 Miina jumped from the cam stand and Marko landed - mating
5:36 Mating and Marko left

The nest is ready, Marko has done a brilliant job (unfortunately we didn't see it this year)

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10:32 Mating and Marko leaves
10:33 Marko with a bunch of lichen
10:58 Marko flies away
11:56 Mating
12:06 Marko with a HUGE branch
12:09 Miina flies away
12:27 Marko is still standing on the nest rim
12:30 Miina is back
12:32 Mating
12:42 Marko with a HUGE lichen branch, 12:48 he leaves, 12:52 ... is back
12:59 Miina flies away, Marko follows, some bird in the air disturbs them
13:00 They both are back and mating

Florinda

[Hellem]

13:02 Marko flies away
13:37 Miina is standing on the nest rim in front of the camera
13:40 Marko and mating
14:02 Miina called and flew away, 14:03 she is back
14:04 Marko lands, 14:05 he leaves
14:29 Marko brings a fish for Miina and she flies away with it
14:31 Marko is doing nestwork
14:34 Marko flies away and takes one stick with him
14:42 Marko is back and does nestwork

[Sappheira]

Dear neighbors, I greet you all and welcome the new season.
May it go well.

[Hellem]

14:52 Miina is back, 14:53 mating attempt and Marko leaves
14:57 Miina is doing nestwork
14:58 Marko is back, 15:00 mating attempt and he leaves, 15:02 he is back with some nest material in his claws
15:05 Another mating attempt and Marko leaves
15:29 Marko is back, 15:30 mating and Marko leaves

Sappheira

[Sappheira]

14:29 Marko brings a fish for Miina and she flies away with it

Hellem

[Hellem]

16:09 Marko landed, he brought nothing but cleans his beak
16:32 Mating and Marko leaves
16:44 Miina flies away, 16:49 she is back with a branch
16:52 Marko is back, Miina flies away
16:57 Marko leaves

17:31 Miina jumps from the cam stand, Marko comes for mating and flies away
17:33 Marko with a big branch
17:36 Marko flies away, Miina is preening on the nest rim
18:00 Marko is back, mating, Miina talks
18:04 Mating attempt and Marko leaves

19:02 Marko with a nice trout ... but flies away with it, Miina is very disappointed
19:17 Marko is back with his fish (now headless), Miina takes it and flies away
19:23 Marko is working

[Hellem]

19:28 Miina is back, her fish is eaten
19:32 Marko flies away
19:44 He is back for mating
19:45 Marko lands, 19:48 ... leaves
20:09 Marko and mating, 20:13 he leaves
20:22 Beautiful pink sky
20:40 Marko lands from the cam stand, 20:41 mating attempt and he leaves
20:44 Miina flies away

[sova]

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Good morning to all

Couple of pictures from yesterday

one of the first pictures

[sova]

*****
Titanic


*ruler*


Marko in action (chasing away crows)

[sova]

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Marko


Miina



Thank you very much Hellem

[sova]

16. April

no camera

[Hellem]

all

sova

Still no cam

[Hellem]

17:38 Still no stream

[Birdfriend]

sova

Your date is not completely correct...

Hellem and all others