Text and photos Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Translation Liis
Estonian text published 01.09.2017
That birds migrate even people very little aware of nature know. But that butterflies also may catch an irresistible wandering urge is certainly news for many of us. The more so since it is not a very common phenomenon in the insect world either.
The Ruhnu Kuningapuu (King’s Tree) known as the Holma White Elm is believed to be somewhat more than 300 years old
White elm; Fluttering elm Künnapuu Ulmus laevis
According to legend more than three quarters of the 300 inhabitants of Ruhnu island died in the great plague of 1710. After the devastating plague two white elms were planted at the gate of the cemetery. One of them grows there even today.
Photos Arne Ader
Translation Liis
Estonian text published 28.08.2017
Black-headed gulls
Black-headed gull Naerukajakas Larus ridibundus
The black-headed gulls, with heads coffee-brown to the neck, that were busy in the fields in spring during the springtime ploughing and familiar to all we also notice during the autumn ploughing: size about the same as the springtime birds, but somehow with light heads – the black-headed gulls are in their winter or non-breeding plumage .
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