April 2019

Screencap from webcam Liz, LK forum
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 18.04.2019

 

Black stork         Must-toonekurg       Ciconia nigra

 

Female Kati has laid eggs with clockwork  regularity and we have been able to greet all the eggs in the morning dusk: on April 12th, 14th, 16th and 18th.

In the nice calm full-moon-time nest forest there were minus degrees in the night but spring proceeds and after noon there may be more than 15 degrees of warmth. 

Screencap from webcam Liz, LK forum

Video Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

English translation Liis

The third egg is a fact

 

Black stork      Must-toonekurg      Ciconia nigra

 

Three  nice eggs in the nest and a proud stork pair. The eggs came every second day, or on April 12th, 14th and 16th in the morning twilight.

This night too there were minus degrees in the nest forest as it has been since the beginning of the egg-laying, but the weather is turning more spring-like.

 

Screencap from webcam  Liz, LK forum

English translation  Liis

 

Estonian text posted 14.04.2019

Early morning at black stork nest

 

Black stork          Must-toonekurg         Ciconia nigra

Just as with the first egg this one was discovered in the nest early in the morning dusk.

The night was not as cold as when the first egg was laid but there were still some degrees of frost.

Thus female Kati laid  the eggs on April 12th and 14th.

Video recorded by  Mutikluti, LK forum
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted  12.04.2019

 

 

 

Grey heron      Hallhaigur           Ardea cinerea

 

Great egret       Hõbehaigur        Ardea alba

 

Video recorded by  Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 12.04.2019

 

This morning at six o’clock

 

White-tailed eagle         Merikotkas       Haliaeëtus albicilla

 

… and not for the first time during the last month. Still the same adult, ringed with the number  E301 and with a nice white tail.

In due time we will find out whom we have to do with.

Screencap from webcam IceAge, LK forum

Screencaps from webcam Liz, LK forum
English translation Liis

The egg and both storks…

 

Black stork          Must-toonekurg       Ciconia nigra

 

The night was of course cold, in the nest forest there may have been at least a couple of degrees of frost but in the morning dusk the egg was really there.

Reading Urmas’s text gives a good overview: LINK

Text: Urmas Sellis, Eagle Club

Screencaps by LK forum  members Joey and Tatyana

 

English translation Google translate (edited)

Greater spotted eagles Tõnn and Tiiu have returned from migration and settled down.

Tõnn came first on April 2:

Already in the next day Tiiu followed

Soon we may see this picture often:

Text: Urmas Sellis, Eagle Club

English translation Google translate (edited)

Estonian text posted 11.04.2019

 

The black stork nest camera works, the birds are in place and viewers are plentiful.

LK forum is where you can get an overview of what has happened in the nest this year as well as in previous years. Different observers have described their observations, and added pictures and videos there.

Introduction Renno Nellis
Transmission provided by Televõrk and EEnet
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 10.04.2019

The heron camera starts its third season. We follow the activities in Estonia’s largest heron colony in Lääne County where last season nearly 490 pairs of grey herons and 250 pairs of great egrets were nesting. Only grey herons were nesting in the colony from the start in the 1990’ies; the great egrets did not move in until 2015.