May 2019

Video recorded by  Aita, LK forum
Estonian text posted 10.05.2019

A chick has picked an opening in the egg in the centre …

Starling        Kuldnokk       Sturnus vulgaris

The hatching is in progress, several half-hatched  chicks were visible for a moment, regrettably it wasn’t caught on the video.

So we predicted: the first egg was laid on April 22. Often there are five or six eggs in a nest (seven in the nest that we observe). The incubation lasts about twelve days. We expect the hatching of the starling chicks at  around May 10th.

Video recorded by  Liz, LK forum
Estonian text posted 09.05.2019
English translation Liis

So the egg came into the nest

Lesser spotted eagle   Väike-konnakotkas     Aquila pomarina    

The female has laid the eggs into the nest at extremely long intervals so it might have been supposed that she would be incubating only one egg.

The first egg was in the nest on May 2nd  and the next one  not until May 7th at about four o’clock in the afternoon. Most usually there are two eggs in a lesser spotted eagle nest. Of the hatched chicks almost without exception only one fledges because the weaker chick perishes before it becomes fully fledged.

Screencap from webcam  Maggy, LK forum
Estonian text posted 09.05.2019
English translation Liis

Three owl chicks remain in the nest trunk hollow…

Tawny owl        Kodukakk           Strix aluco

That this might happen at some time watchers have already been forewarned about. In the later half of yesterday the fourth owl chick had become quite weak for several reasons.

The three owl chicks were hatched on April 18th, 19th and 20th and they will be three weeks old at the weekend. Klaara also stopped keeping the chicks warm this week but comes to feed them and keeps an eye on the chicks by being near the nest in daytime .

Screencap from webcam  Maggy, LK forum
Estonian text posted 04.05.2019
English translation Liis

Image from this morning of the owl family in the nest trunk

Tawny owl        Kodukakk         Strix aluco

The webcam image shows the difference in size between the three older chicks and the fourth that was hatched two days later than the first three.

Mother Klaara has no longer time to feed the chicks individually and the fight for survival between the owl chicks is on, altough it is not conscious but rather as human thinking sees it.

At the end of May the chicks start leaving the nest trunk

Video recorded by  Bea, LK forum
Screencap from webcam  Rita, LK forum
Estonian text posted 03.04.2019

Yesterday night the female laid the first egg in the nest

Lesser spotted eagle       Väike-konnakotkas        Aquila pomarina

The weather is cold or changeable as in  spring, but the egg wanted to be laid despite that.

In previous years we have been able to watch the nest life of lesser spotted eagles in the webcam beginning from 2008.

Transmission courtesy of  EENet
Screencap from webcam  Felis silvestris, LK forum
Estonian text posted 05.05.2019
English translation Liis

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Screencap from webcam  Jojo, LK forum
Estonian text posted 02.05.2019

..yes, only two eggs in the nest but they were three …

Osprey         Kalakotkas          Pandion haliaetus

In the osprey webcam 2 we now see only two eggs in the nest – what has happened in the nest of Miina and Marko?

Last year also an egg disappeared from a  nest but then the whole event was witnessed by viewers .

Video recorded by  Bea, LK forum
Estonian text posted 02.05.2019
English translation Liis

Female Iiris laying the third egg

Osprey      Kalakotkas         Pandion haliaetus

 

In the Osprey 2 nest the female laid the third egg into the nest. Witnesses to the occasion: a pair of collared doves in a dried tree further away.

The female laid the first egg on April 28th, the second one already  the next day, April 29th, and the third one in the cold morning of May 2nd.

Screencap from webcam  Maggy, LK forum
Estonian text posted 02.05.2019
English translation Liis

Tawny owl       Kodukakk         Strix aluco

 

Nature disposes things in its own way as we know.

The fifth owl chick  hatched almost a week later than the first one and didn’t manage to survive in the fight for life. Tonight we could see what had happened..

The appetite of the young birds grows by each day and female Klaara too must be busy with getting food several times during the night.