In the "Osoon" programme in ETV on Monday renowned wildlife photographer Remo Savisaar talked about the making of his best roe deer photos.
With hunter Priit Vahtramäe"Osoon" also visited the salt lick block in the place from where we soon should see the first images from the roe deer online camera.
Text: Kaido Einama
Translation Liis
Last week art student Pei-Hsin Chen who installed images transmitted from the black stork camera in a public space in London for six months during the previous stork camera transmission period visited Estonia. Pei-Hsin himself explained the project „Real Life / Real Time“ with a need to show a younger generation, or all Londoners under 50 years, an experience of nature, as urbanised people already have very little contact with anything that goes on in a forest and know little about it.
Red deer Punahirv Cervus elaphus
It has just turned dark, the stags only now gather on the feeding ground. Today there is belligerence in the air, all try to assert their importance in one way or another.
Normally the older creatures with solid antler growth do not have particularly much to do with the younger ones – they do what they want and no one protests in general.
Text Aivar Leito
Crane Ahja 5 equipped with leg ring as well as GSM/GPRS leg ring
Hello, all crane friends!
It is a pleasure to tell you that the young crane „Ahja 5“ winters happily in Ethiopia near the little town of Sululta, 15 km north of Addis Abeba.
The bird was caught on July 6th near the village of Ahja, Estonia, and was marked with coloured leg rings and a 40g GSM/GPRS solar battery powered satellite transmitter from Latvian company „Ornitela“, also attached to a leg.
Estonia’s wildlife is in trouble but helping hands have become few and each new amendment in legal acts concerning the environment instead weakens the support of humans to nature.
Through ages nature has managed to co-exist with humans – a mutually helpful system has evolved.
We keep the abundance of species in balance, in exchange for enjoying the beauty and gifts of nature. But in the 21st century we have begun to segregate the riches of nature. We need the large wild game in the forest but the small game animals and tiny forest inhabitants, beginning with flying squirrels and ending with rare bird species such as for instance the capercaillie, must cope on their own.
Images from webcam IceAge and Shanta, LK forum
Great spotted woodpecker male
That smaller passerines like the grain balls viewers of the bird feeder camera have surely noticed, but bigger ones are also busy at them for getting food to store.
The male in the image tears up the net quite deliberately in order to get larger bites and avoid the boring pecking…
Photo Tiit Hunt
Viviparous eelpout
Viviparous eelpout or blenny Emakala or kiviluts Zoarces viviparus
The little researched eelpout belongs to the Perciformes order and Zoarces family of fish and is the only viviparous fish species fish, that is, giving birth to live fry (larvae), in Estonian waters.
The birthing started already last in December but goes on also in February. How do things proceed?
Photo Tiit Hunt
Grayling
Grayling Harjus or ärn Thymallus thymallus
A protected fish species in Estonian rivers. Catching is prohibited the year round
Grayling rearing experiments started at the RMK Põlula Fish Rearing Centre in the spring of 2016.
Journal „Eesti Loodus“ informs
In the last issue of 2016 of Eesti Loodus we bring the question of Rail Baltic to our readers.
Geographer Arvo Järvet reminds of the start of the Rail Baltic project and discusses whether the creation of a high-speed railway in Estonia really is still meaningful. Logistics entrepreneur Karli Lambot refers to the concern that the proposed Rail Baltic will become a monument in Europe to a thoughtless and wasteful culture.
Read the articles on the web: LINK
On December 9, 2016 the web newspaper ”Avalik Eesti” – "Public Estonia" started its publication.
”Avalik Eesti” will publish articles on the development of issues in the Estonian public sphere.
In the first issue of the newsletter people write who published an open letter in the newspaper Postimees on September 30th in which they asked for an open debate in the Estonian community of the planned Rail Baltic.
The editorial of the first issue says:
We see that the '101 letter' has achieved its objective: public interest and a desire to contribute in the deliberations has come to life, but as before there still is a lack of adequate information about the plans.
Video recorded by Venegor, LK forum
Translation Liis
Great spotted woodpecker in great tit’s nest box
Great spotted woodpecker Suur-kirjurähn Dendrocopos major
Perhaps necessary to show who is the king of this forest?
Some months ago a woodpecker made the entrance hole to the nest box larger, behaved rowdily and threw out nest materials (it is of course good that the old nest materials were removed). Sometimes it even came in daytime to check the nest box.
Photo Arne Ader
Translation Liis
About half-year old bear cubs in spruce forest. Nigula Animal Shelter
Brown bear Karu or pruunkaru Ursus arctos
Despite the so to say autumny weather brown bears have already started giving birth in our forests in December, and it can last until February. Up to sixty mother bears will see an increase in their family.
Posted by the Animal of the Year Team 31.12.2016
At Soosaare there was plenty of activity in the last week of the year. Badgers as well as raccoon dogs were out. The badgers made longer trips in the forest near the sett as in the previous week. The raccoon dogs were bolder too and seemed to move quite at the heels of the hosts.
Photos Arne Ader
Fireworks
Who in our nature will be introduced to our readers in 2017:
Animal of the Year – Roe deer.
Roe buck
Bird of the Year – Common or European turtle dove.
Posted by the Animal of the Year Team 27.12.2016
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