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Webcam for bird migration in autumnal Haeska

Introduction written by Tiit Hunt, rmk.ee
Transmission provided by Teetormaja and EENet
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 16.09.2018

Last autumn and this spring we could observe the autumn and spring migration of birds on the Sassi peninsula through the web camera. For a change we will follow the migration this season that is still gathering momentum in another location - in the Haeska coastal meadow on the northern shore of Matsalu

Evening meal with a toad

Photos Arne Ader
English  translation Liis

Estonian text posted 13.09.2018

Harilik kärnkonn

Common toad

 

Common toad      Harilik kärnkonn        Bufo bufo

 

On Saturday evening, I had the opportunity to keep company with a toad gentleman at an evening meal that started at half past five and lasted almost an hour and a half.

Why a male? The individual was some eleven centimetres long, smart and dignified. Somehow I did not want to class the creature as a female because old females may be even larger than fifteen centimetres in body length and, as fits dignified ladies, appropriately portly.

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