March 2018

Screencap from webcam Hagnat, LK forum

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Estonian text  posted 15.03.2018

 

A couple of days ago the jackals were moving on the southern shore of Matsalu after a break

 

Golden jackal    Šaakal or harilik šaakal          Canis aureus

 

Photos Arne Ader

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Estonian text posted 11.01.2018

Alder catkins

 

Grey alder       Hall lepp or valge lepp       Alnus incana

 

The long brown male inflorescences of alders have already lengthened, hanging in the trees by threes or fives.

Our ancestors foretold their autumn grain harvest from the spring abundance of catkins (alder catkins – bread catkins); they do remind of grain heads.

Text Peep Männil, www.keskkonnaagentuur.ee

Photo: Sven Zacek, www.zacekfoto.ee

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Estonian text posted 09.03.2018

 

Wolf in snowfall.

If you see a wolf and he has not noticed you it is an extraordinary experience. Enjoy the moment and save it in a photo if possible. Meeting a wolf is very rare and only very few persons have had the experience because the number of wolves is small and the wolf is an extremely cautious animal.

Video and image recorded by Ahto Täpsi
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Estonian text posted 10.03.2018

The sleeping den

Brown bear         Karu or pruunkaru       Ursus arctos

 

The first one to wake up in late winter moving around in the Sirtsi bog area.  

An urgent need seems to have roused the sleeper, a yellow trail went from  the den to seven meters away which can be seen in the beginning of the video.

Photos Arne Ader
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Estonian text posted 01.03.2018

Squirrel

 

Red squirrel      Harilik orav     Sciurus vulgaris

 

We have already noticed the increased mobility or mating period of the so-called urban or city squirrels in parks, cemeteries and garden cities despite the cold winter weather. In cities there is a couple more degrees of warmth in the air than in the forest. To that comes the light pollution and somewhat different feeding habits in the urban conditions. The mating games of our forest inhabitants should also have started.

Text  Aivar Leito

Photo  Arne Ader
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Estonian text posted 08.03.2018

Monitoring  crane with GPS with an aerial. Aivar Leito

 

Crane     Sookurg       Grus grus

I am happy to tell you that cranes Ahja 5, Uko and Aivar have set out on the way home from their winter quarters!

 

Text: Urmas Sellis, EOÜ
Images: Triin Leetmaa

Transmission courtesy of  EENet
Translation Liis

The white-tailed eagle camera is installed at a nest in West Estonia. In the same area the web camera was placed in 2009-2013, at the so called Linda and Sulev’s nest. The first of the nests at that time was situated across the bog which is visible behind the tree crowns from the present nest. The first plan to install the camera at the new nest of white-tailed eagle Anna and Uku, popular in 2016, did not succeed since the new nest too had fallen down in winter.

Text  Aivar Leito
Photo Jose A. Román
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Estonian text posted 28.02.2018

Crane „Loode“ (centre) in winter quarters in Spain

 

On February 20th in the morning crane Loode, caught last summer at Sõrve in Saaremaa as a big chick and marked with a transmitter, started his spring migration.