May 2019

Wolves are territorial animals

Sisu

The Voyageurs Wolf Project video perfectly demonstrates the wolves’  seriousness and serious perception of  their territory. The video has data from the GPS collars of members of six different neighbouring wolf packs.

Video source: Voyageurs Wolf Project
Estonian text posted by the  Animal of the Year Team 06.05.2019
English translation GoogleTranslate (edited)

 

Tawny owl chicks two weeks old

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: Egg in lesser spotted eagle nest

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.

Where did the third egg in the osprey nest go?

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: Third egg appeared in osprey nest

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.

Four owl chicks in nest trunk

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.

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