April 2017

Video story: Commotion in starling nest box continues

Text Margus Ots, www.linnuvaatleja.ee
Translation Liis

In the starling nest box with the web camera a case of nest parasitism took place a couple of days ago, when strange female starlings attempted to lay their eggs in the nest. The eggs laid by them were however thrown out by the pair that regarded the nest box as their own.

Video story: Nest parasitism in starling nest box

Text Margus Ots, www.linnuvaatleja.ee
Translation Liis

In the starling nest with the webcam soap opera-like events took place yesterday, April 26th. At 10.40 am a female bird arrived at the nest box, quickly laid an egg and left. About an hour later the male starling arrived and threw the egg out of the nest. About ten minutes later another female starling arrived unexpectedly and also laid an egg in the nest. At 12.20 the male arrived again and threw this egg too out.

See video clips of the events after the text.

VIDEO: Eagle owl chicks growing

Video recorded by Liz, LK forum
Translation Liis

 

The female has a considerable stock for feeding the chicks

 

Eagle owl        Kassikakk      Bubo bubo

 

The two chicks of the eagle owl pair were hatched on the night to April 23. The incubation period of the large birds is long, up to 35 days. The three eggs laid in the nest we saw already on March 27 when the webcam transmission started.

Buck’s antlers ready

Sisu
sokul sarved valmisRoe bucks and one doe in mid-April 2017.The antlers of one buck is already bare. The furs are still winter-coloured and fit very well into the bare spring landscape.
 
Photo: Tarmo Mikussaar
Posted by the Team of the Animal of the Year, 21.04.2017
 

The winter which fortunately was easy to bear for the roe deer has ended and the animals are in good condition. Springtime activities begin.

Eagle Club on TV

Photo Arne Ader

Translation Liis

Loodusemees Urmas Sellis merikotka poegi rõngastamas

Nature man Urmas Sellis ringing white-tailed eaglets

 

In the programme Urmas and Renno Nellis present a review of the birds and animals that have become familiar to us through the years by way of the webcams, and of all that accompanies such enterprises.  ETV article and link to programme video: LINK 

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