April 2018

Photo Arne Ader
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Estonian text posted 15.04.2018

Nest tree of goldeneye

The felling truce that was activated today is particularly aimed at preventing disturbances to birds nesting in old forests and animals during the reproduction period. The felling truce lasts until June 15th. An interruption of the spring felling has become a tradition in state forests from  2002.

In the state forests planting of more than 20 million trees is planned during the felling truce period and maintenance of young forests will be arranged on 40 thousand hectares..

Several private forest owners have also adapted their activities to the felling break.

ELF’s “ Konnad teel(t) - Frogs off roads”

Photo Arne Ader
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Estonian text posted 17.04.1018

Common frogs (Rana temporaria)

 

The warmer weather has woken up our amphibians that have started to migrate massively to their reproduction areas. In connection with this the Estonian Fund for Nature (ELF) calls all to help frogs to cross road cuts safely where the migration paths of amphibians meet motoring roads. Drivers should be particularly attentive late at night when the migration is large and volunteers are out to help the amphibians.

Screencap  Juta LK forum
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Estonian text posted 18.04.2018

 

Black stork            Must- toonekurg       Ciconia nigra

 We were of course expecting the second egg in the nest this morning but still a nice view.

Early morning screencap Liz, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 16.04.2018

It is 5.15 in the morning

 

Black stork        Must-toonekurg       Ciconia nigra

 

In the nest of the stork pair, carefully finished with moss in the last few days there was an egg in the early morning and the pair standing proudly beside it.

So the first egg was in the nest on April 16th.

Text: Urmas Sellis, EOÜ
Photos: Hagnat (LK forum); Ain Nurmla, Urmas Sellis

Transmission provided by  Tele2 and EENet

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Estonian text posted 14.04.2018

For the third season we can follow the black stork pair nesting in the Karula National Park. There is a series of photos about the first installation of the camera and its prehistory on the ELF (Estonian Fund for Nature) community work page. At the installation of the camera this year the old nest had halfway collapsed and we built an artificial nest beside it.

Images  Šveitsi Eesti Selts – Estonian Swiss Association

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Estonian text posted 14.04.2018

 

To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Estonia, the Swiss Estonian Association presented Switzerland with one hundred nest boxes to protect endangered bird species. The organizers have made a video introducing the project.

In March  the „100 linnumaja Eesti sajandaks“ (100 nest boxes for Estonia 100 years ) entered the home stretch with the installation of the last nest box and an opening celebration held in Biel-Benken – the birds can move in.

Video recorded by  Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

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Estonian text posted 13.04.2018

 

 

Golden eagle          Kaljukotkas or maakotkas       Aquila chrysaetos

 

Already in winter the Eagle Club installed a camera at the nest of the golden eagles in Soomaa so that the watchful birds would be less disturbed by people moving around. The eagle pair visited the nest with varying frequency, brought new nest materials and marked it with fresh green twigs …

 

Urmas Sellis:

Photo Arne Ader
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Estonian text posted 13.04.2018

Mezereon

 

Mezereon; Daphne        Harilik näsiniin         Daphne mezereum

 

 

Before the trees come into leaf, a  sparsely branched low shrub flowers in the still sunny ground layers of the bare mixed forests, sometimes even with only one branch with lilac flowers – the mezereon.

The plant prefers chalk-rich habitats, even mildly fresh but fertile soils – for instance sunny underwoods under hazels.

Text Urmas Sellis
Video recorded by  liznm, LK forum
Translation Liis

 

Estonian text posted 11.04.2018

 

 

White-tailed eagle; Sea eagle      Merikotkas      Haliaeëtus albicilla

 

 

Are two eggs better than one?

If you have a choice, then surely. But in the Estonian white-tailed eagles’ (Suvi and Sulev) nest with webcam there is not much choice – only one egg remains in the nest.

The second egg was broken on the morning of April 5th and the remnants  were removed by the adults from the nest.

Text written and photos and videos selected by  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee

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Estonian text posted 11.04.2018

 

Last year in the autumn we installed the web Camera at the Metsküla shore, in a site from where at about five kilometres distance in 2013 the first evidence came to prove the presence of the golden jackal   (Canis aureus) in Estonia.

Now we will leave the jackals on their own in Metsküla and bring to mind who has been seen and heard in camera view during the five months. 

Already in the evening at the installation of the camera the ringing howl  of two jackals sounded from the beach. The jackals here also howl at propeller-driven airplanes and the evening plane between Kuressaare and Tallinn almost always made the animals howl .

 

 

Camera view is transmitted by  Teetormaja

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Estonian text posted 11.04.2018

We will follow the doings in a starling nest box. Viewers will remember the events of last year between the competing females that made the nesting fail

Video recorded by Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee
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Estonian text posted 08.04.2018

outu.be

Work is carried out with the  dedication and confidence of the masters of the nest. It will be home for several months and must  be marked and decorated.

The exciting springtime period continues, calls and hoots are  heard from everywhere …

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum
Translation  Liis

 

Estonian text posted 09.04.2018

 

Klaara shows an interest in Klaus’s doings around the nest trunk by hooting

 

Tawny owl       Kodukakk         Strix aluco

 

We will look a  little while back in time on what has happened and is happening in the  tawny owl  nest hollow, and briefly forward.

Klaara laid the first egg into the nest hollow in the trunk on March 30th, the next ones on  April 2nd and 5th: so it works for tawny owls, with intervals of a couple of days. It seems that the egg clutch is complete.

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 08.04.2018

When evening begins wings have to be stretched for a bit.

 

Tawny  owl             Kodukakk      Strix aluco

Observing the peaceful home life in the owl nest we can see that female Klaara has three eggs in the nest in the tree trunk.

So the first egg on March 30th, the second one on April 2nd and the third on April 5th. Let us hope that the clutch is complete

 

Screencap Fleur, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 05.04.2018

Klaara’s third egg in the nest trunk

 

Tawny owl       Kodukakk          Strix aluco

In the evening of the warm spring day Klaara had laid the third egg as expected.

So the first egg on March 30th, the second one on April 2nd and on April 5th the third egg.