February 2016

 

The summary of the first month of the ring finding contest arranged by Estbirding is now published in the blog: LINK *

 

Better months for finding ringed birds and reading their rings are yet ahead so it is not too late at all to join the contest.

 

Our southern neighbours have already met geese, stock doves and wood pigeons, lapwings and many other early spring migrating birds.

 

 

Already in January white-tailed eagles start visiting their nests more often. In the video we see a 4-5 years old white-tailed eagle without rings. From the nest the bird flew to the right to perch in a tree as if it were settling down for the night.

 

 

 

 

Among the stamps published in 2015 stamp enthusiasts chose an  otter stamp designed by Sándor Stern as the most beautiful. In second place came the stamp with a Bird of the Year, the honey buzzard, designed by Vladimir Taiger. Among the special stamps and envelope sets, the set created by Vladimir Taiger on the bird of the year theme  took the first place  by great majority.

 

Another strange winter. The spawning of burbots does not benefit from this climate; until the turn of the year water temperature in our waters has been higher than usual. During the January cold wave the spawning of burbots started under the ice cover in rivers. In lakes it will be a little later. The mating period of burbots in Lake Peipus lasts up to 7 weeks.

 

 

The butterflies of the species that will be seen this summer started life in the summer of last year when the female

 

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