Video recorded by Olle Koert, www.tt.ee
Image from webcam captured by Felis Silvestris, LK forum
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Great tit Rasvatihane Parus major
Early on Sunday morning the nest box of the great tits was empty and desolate. The female spent the night in the nest box and the male guarded the surroundings to keep off intruders or even other nest contenders.
Image from webcam captured by Shanta, LK forum
Video recorded by Fleur, LK forum
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By Saturday morning the great tit had laid an egg
Great tit Rasvatihane Parus major
Great tits nest everywhere in Estonia and this year about 300-400 thousand great tit pairs will build a nest. In camera view birds have spent the night in all nests but the egg is in the first nest box. There is quite a lot to tell about our ordinary great tits during the breeding season.
In the Week in the Forest corner on the Animal of the Year home page we start monitoring the doings of a couple of badger families and events in their home forest by trail cameras.
This year, the Badger Year, Latvian zoologists installed several track cameras in protected Latvian forests. As in Estonia, our southern neighbours until now have no proper overview of their badger population. To complement the knowledge about badgers the Latvian forest agency Silava chose three large badger castles in northwestern Latvia in a nature reserve area, installed the cameras and now have sent us pictures and video cuts. In the video we can see how the badger – āpsis in Latvian – scratches itself. The other members of the large castle are not visible at the moment but it is known that a large number of inhabitants live there, more than in the home of our video stars in Saaremaa.
Great Tit Year science news conveyed by Marko Mägi, marko.magi@ut.ee
Photo Arne Ader
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Blue tit
Hawk-eyed, eagle eyed –the expressions are tied to the keen eyesight of birds.
Birds whose eyesight is noticeably better than that of humans are also able to see light invisible to the human eye – radiation in the UV part of the spectrum. The visual capacity of birds does however not stop there. Since many birds catch their prey in the air, they must distinguish a great number of details in movements in order to be successful. While a human viewer sees what happens on a film screen as a uniform smooth movement when in fact looking at images that change at a rate of 24 frames per second, then birds are able to see many more frames per second individually.
Text: Urmas Sellis and Jānis Ķuze
Transmission courtesy of Tele2 ja EENet
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Two cameras are installed at black stork nests, one in South Estonia and the other in South Latvia
The black stork nest in Estonia is new to the viewers as well as to us:
Ending story Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
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Uno recently found one of the antlers that Hubert shed in February last year.
The red deer camera ends this season.
We will be able to observe the doings of the red deer again in the beginning of September when the powerful mating roars from the male deer again resound from the fields and forests, and the antler-rattling of rivals is heard.
Hubert, the largest of the twenty-member deer flock that visited the feeding ground, shed his antlers already in mid-February and by mid-May the old antlers had fallen from even the youngest members of the flock.
Scarce conformist moth; Softly's sholuder-knot moth Harilik tüveöölane Lithophane consocia
The scarce conformist or Softly’s shoulderknot moth is common in Estonia and it can be encountered everywhere.
Video recorded by Fleur, LK forum
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Goshawk; Northern goshawk Kanakull Accipiter gentilis
To start with, the goshawk pair nesting in Riga city had 4 greenish-white eggs in the nest already in the evening of Wednesday, April 13. With this the clutch was complete; incubation goes on and can last 35 to 42 days.
Webcam image captured by Ame, LK forum
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The whole family investigating…
White-tailed eagle Merikotkas Haliaeëtus albicilla
Friday's ”talker” is about to hatch, in the last egg there is a large hole showing that eagle chick twins are going to hatch on Saturday. Congratulations!
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