Screenshot from webcam IceAge, LK forum
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 27.06.2018
A really handsome greater spotted eagle juvenile that will be three months old on September 1st
Greater spotted eagle Suur-konnakotkas Aquila clanga or Clanga clanga
In the Hour of the Lynx that took place on the 79th birthday of the Tallinn Zoo Tiit Maran, the Zoo director, explained at the lynx enclosure how scientists found out whether the wolf is stronger than the lynx. And veterinarian Aleksandr Semjonov talked about the most dangerous creatures in the zoo – and they are not at all the polar bear or tiger, not to mention the lynx!
The Hour of the Lynx was arranged by the Friends of the Tallinn Zoo, the Animal of the Year group and the Tallinn Zoo.
Estonian text posted by the Animal of the Year team 26.08.2018
Screenshot from webcam Gavril, LK forum
Video recorded by Birdfriend, LK forum
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 26.08.2018
Young osprey Jaak arrived in the nest without the plastic leg ring that had been tangled in the claws…
Osprey Kalakotkas Pandion haliaetus
Well done, if something disturbs, it has to be gotten rid of.
This was our only hope, and so it happened. The video shows that the use of claws has not been forgotten. Good that we got to know about it through the camera, otherwise it would have remained to bother both the watchers and the eagle-men.
Now that the summer heat is giving over to more timely early autumn winds and rain showers it is the best time to go out and pick these berries ripened to blackish-blue in the sun on field and hiking path verges.
The dewberry (Rubus caesius) looks like a black or dark blue berry similar to a raspberry, with a greyish waxy coat, but it is not really a berry – the fruits of the dewberry, cloudberry as well as raspberry are aggregate drupes where each individual little grain or drupelet contains a small stone similar to that in a cherry or plum.
Summary, images and video Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Transmission courtesy of Elisa and EENet
English translation Liis
Estonian text published 22.08.2018
During the month we have seen storms, thick mist and mirror-smooth sunny sea at the Havers beach in LääneCounty – and of course migrating waders.
Video recorded by Aita, LK forum
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 22.08.2018
Tõnn calls eaglet to evening feeding
Greater spotted eagle Suur-konnakotkas Aquila clanga or Clanga clanga
Yesterday the image from the webcam was restored. In the evening we could see the juvenile being fed by the male and also called to the nest – the young bird moves around near the nest. The male visited the nest this morning too but in evening light the image from the camera was clearer.
Screenshot from webcam Seira, LK Forum
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 22.08.2018
Male Ivo brings fish to the nest. The “ring-fettered” young osprey gets it to eat
Osprey Kalakotkas Pandion haliaetus
The young ospreys are already two and a half months old. But we will not look at this but at the plastic ring that has got tangled on the leg of one young osprey.
Rainbow photo without filters sent by Allar Maaring
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 20.08.2018
Leisi Rainbow
The changes between sunshine and showers bring many rainbows into the sky.
A rainbow is an optical phenomenon – refraction, reflection and diffraction of light in water droplets. The eye of a human distinguishes between red, orange, yellow, green, blue, dark blue and violet. Sometimes we see several rainbows, or secondary rainbows with reversed colours above the main rainbow.
Rainbows develop only when the sun is not higher on the horizon than 400.
Red-breasted flycatcher male
Photo: Remo Savisaar
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 19.08.2018 by the Animal of the Year Team
I would like to introduce to you a less well known but eye-catching neighbour of the lynx. A bird that I hear or see often when moving along lynx paths: the red-breasted flycatcher. Of our four flycatchers it is the most forest-loving. The fact that I hear and see it does not mean that it occurs everywhere. Old mixed spruce forests are its favourites, and always such where you find dead trees and also windfalls. It shares the preferences with the lynx!
Text Sibelle Lee
Photos Virge Võsujalg
Comments Aivar Leito, “Uncle Crane“
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 17.08.2018
Such a crane chick was brought to us
On July 14th the Imeloomade Selts, a society that helps wild animals in distress, received a call that in the Kaelas village in Pärnu County a lonely crane chick had appeared in the farm yard.
The neighbourhood had been searched but adults to whom to return their offspring was not to be found anywhere.
The wildlife helpers expected a half-metre tall angry fighter such as young cranes may be at this time. The surprise was great when the bird was handed to them across the gate in a small box.
Photos Arne Ader
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 10.08.2018
Bird cherry berries
Bird cherry Harilik toomingas Padus avium
From the flowers that were pollinated during the flowering time of the bird cherry black and glossy berries have ripened by now.
Bird cherry berries are quite edible: taste sourish, with a high Vitamin C content and quite good for the body. But they are rich in tanning compounds, making the mouth feel ”thick” on eating.
Screenshots from webcam UteL, LK forum
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 15.08.2018
Yesterday morning the storklets were in the nest as usual…
Black stork Must-toonekurg Ciconia nigra
The young storks left on migration as usual a little before they were three months old. They did not go on discovery trips together and they left from the nest at different times and in different directions. And how do we know?
Photos Tiit Hunt and Arne Ader
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 10.08.2018
Viviparous eelpout or blenny Emakala or kiviluts Zoarces viviparus
The mating period is comparable to that of mammals; the facts are as follows.
The male fertilizes the roe inside the female fish and in the ovary of the female fry develop from the roe grains. Thus the eelpout is a viviparous fish, or our only one to give birth to living fry..
The author, Kristel Vilbaste, also posts texts in Vikerraadio
Photos: Arne Ader and Aare Lindt
Translation into English by Maret
Estonian text posted 07.08.2018
Admiral
Last week I talked about my butterfly garden, so I thought that this summer I won’t mention butterflies any more. There are so many creatures out there just calling to me: Talk about me! Talk about me!
Chicory and buzzards, young common swifts ready for their first flight, and woolly burdocks, whose flower tufts are just so suitable for a “burdock war”.
But at Võtikvere book market I was approached by several people talking eagerly about admirals. I must confess, that I don’t know that much about them, only that they are migratory butterflies and that they look a little like an admiral’s three-corner hat. Dark brown, beautiful wings with proud orange stripes. and white spots on their wing tips.
The author, Kristel Vilbaste, also posts texts in Vikerraadio
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation into English by Maret
Estonian text posted 02.08.2018
Tansy
Nature is gradually starting to turn yellow. Not only birch leaves and harvested grain fields, but a powerful plant with yellow flowers is now in bloom - tansy.
You find it just about everywhere: roadsides, seasides, and right now there are masses of it on the idle fields around the Estonian National Museum (Eesti Rahva Muuseum).
The author, Kristel Vilbaste, also presents texts in Vikerraadio
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation into English by Maret
Estonian text posted 01.08.2018
Yarrow
Thunder brings a temporary cold spell, nature is “freezing” at 20˚C. But during the day, a smiling sun peeks through an opening in the clouds and spreads tropical heat again, and the dance of butterflies in my flower garden starts anew.
I have a modern butterfly garden, as the fashion in Europe now dictates.
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