Photo Arne Ader

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Caraway

Caraway    Harilik köömen         Carum carvi

The biennial caraway plants flower modestly everywhere with small elegant inflorescences in umbels.

In Estonia they are quite common but keep close to humans and grow in biotopes influenced by humans – near settlements or farms, in meadows, the verges of roads … 

Image from webcam captured by  Birdfriend, LK forum
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Male feeding the storklets

Black stork     Must-toonekurg        Ciconia nigra

The interruption in transmission lasted for a couple of days; from Wednesday the system works again and transmits data to us.

Text and photos  Urmas Tartes
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Female house mosquito (Culex pipiens) emerging from pupa 

Can mosquitoes be regarded as friends? My answer is – Yes. A friend is somebody who will never deceive you, whom you can trust. Mosquitoes never deceive. If a ”lean” female mosquito flies around you, you know exactly what she wants. When you see a mosquito with a bulging red abdomen however, you know that for at least week it will not bother you. If a male mosquito with a high-pitched fine whine happens to fly around you, you are uninteresting to him.

Video recorded by  Ame, LK forum
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White-tailed eagle      Merikotkas          Haliaeëtus albicilla

A few minutes earlier female eagle  Anna again arrived with a fish to coax the eaglets out of the nest. She showed nicely how to throw oneself from a branch so that the wind carries you - and left with the fish.

8.35 was departure time for one eaglet. Flying does work when you really want to or when hunger pinches.