Badger Mäger Meles meles
The reading of this year’s track book was confoundingly tricky. There is no lasting snow cover nor daytime thaw and a new fresh snow layer on it.
White-tailed eagles and "98"
Text: Urmas Sellis (Eagle Club)
Images from webcam: Urmas, Michi, Mutikluti)
Images from webcam: Urmas, Michi, Mutikluti)
Translation Liis
When we celebrate Estonia’s 98th anniversary the eagles are prepared to do so too.
Two days before the Anniversary of the Estonian Republic the female arrived in the white-tailed eagle nest where the webcam is installed.
Two faces of one phenomenon
Photo Arne Ader
Translation Liis
Glaze frost on birch branches
A winter rainfall that freezes on the ground is called glaze ice, but when it does so on trees, power lines or or on objects above ground in general then glaze frost.
Yesterday ice rain fell from nimbostratus clouds, dark, low-level clouds, at a height of about one kilometre and this weather phenomenon we can still feel in the next few days.
The precipitation of ice rain is caused by a warm
Cornflower blue
Text Kristel Vilbaste
Photo Arne Ader
Translation Liis
It is fitting to talk about our national symbols at the Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia on February 24th: limestone boulders, sturdy junipers, barn swallows … and cornflowers.
Cornflower blue has enchanted me for years. Maybe because I remember from my childhood preparing herbarium pages together with my grandmother. Preserving the cornflower blue was the most difficult part in drying plants. But Grandmother’s work bore fruit and the blue has survived until today.
Until today I have not connected the actions at the end of the 1960ies with the choice of the cornflower as our national flower. Yes, from 1969 the cornflower is the national flower of Estonia.
Current stand of AFS
Info from Estonian VTA
Translation Liis
African Swine Fever (AFS) zones.
According to data at the Estonian Veterinary and Food Board (Veterinaar- ja Toiduamet, VTA) AFS was found in 51 cases in the period February 9-15: 30 positive tests in samples from boar found dead and from 21 that were shot by hunters.
VIDEO: Starling at birdfeeder
Video recorded by Bea, LK forum
Translation Liis
Starling Kuldnokk Sturnus vulgaris
The winter this year lasted three weeks in January and of course wintering starlings were also seen. They were already moving in larger groups from the beginning of the month –probably arrivals from the south.
White-tailed eagle nest camera 2016
The white-tailed eagle camera is located at a nest in West Estonia, a neighbour to the nest of Linda and Sulev that we have watched previously. Installation of the camera took two days in mid-January (it was still cold weather then, around -15⁰C), taking part were Renno, Omar, Triin and Urmas. Later Renno and Omar had to adjust a few minor details.
Are city or country tits healthier?
Year of the Great Tit science news conveyed by Marko Mägi UT Bird Ecology researcher
Photo Arne Ader
Translation Liis
VIDEO: Nest has to be fought for
White-tailed eagle Merikotkas Haliaeetus albicilla
To start with some information: beginning from February 15th it is prohibited to move in the nesting area of white-tailed eagles without special permission according to the Nature Conservation Act.
The quite long “film” shows the fending off of the younger nest occupants for five minutes.
VIDEO: About the winter activities of badgers
On the border between Harju and Rapla counties, in a hazel stand with large aspens and some spruces and birches, there is a badger castle with more than ten openings. Here on a hazel a trail camera was mounted in the end of January to observe whether badgers, besides sleeping, also go outdoors in winter.
Photos and video records testify that there is plenty of activity whenever warmer weather arrives, and that there is no lack of visitors. Four badgers, probably two adults and their two young, are active at the den every evening and night.
Tuhala Witches Well no longer boils
Photo: Kaido Einama
We let know that the Tuhala Witches Well “boiled” since Thursday night:
We also noted that the phenomenon could end at any time. And so it did.
While on Sunday many who came to see it witnessed the amazing happening, those who travelled there on Monday to watch were sadly disappointed: just a wet well rim was to be seen.
Nothing to be done about it. Remains only to wait for the next boiling: it may come already next spring, it may take several years.
Seal camera works
Webcam image captured by Bea, LK forum
Translation Liis
In the stormy weather of this year a calm day was hard to find.
About the situation then: the pupping of grey seals started about two weeks ago, with the beginning of February: the bigger seal pups look this old. There were about 20 of them on the isle but that nearly 50% die is worrying. When the active period on the isle has ended seal researchers Mart and Ivar Jussi will be able to tell more in detail about the situation.
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