June 2019

Video recorded by  Fleur; LK forum
Estonian text posted 27.06.2019

Nightjar       Öösorr           Caprimulgus europaeus

Screencap from web camera   Laranjeiras, LK forum
Estonian text posted 21.06.2019

The nightjar chicks get out from under the cover of the female bird in hot days

 Nightjar           Öösorr       Caprimulgus europaeus

The nightjar nestlings hatched within less than a day on June 13 and 14 and by today they are one week old. Splendid that we have been able to follow the doings of these birds through the web camera. We have been lucky: after all this is the Bird Of The Year.

Screencap from webcam Liz, LK forum
Estonian text posted 20.06.2019

A few minutes past 1.30 pm male Karl arrived  as the first to feed the storklets. and with  a five minutes interval female Kati

Black stork        Must-toonekurg       Accipiter gentilis

 The attacks of the goshawk on the nest lasted nearly until noon with intervals; interesting where the bird of prey headed and why did it abstain from attacking the nest again?

The storklets calmed down within some ten minutes after the bird of prey left – they can  judge danger.

Screencap from webcam video recorded by   Liz, LK forum
Estonian text posted 20.06.2019  10.25

Goshawk      Kanakull        Accipiter gentilis

If we have the identification right  we have to do with a first year goshawk because we can see lengthwise streaks on the breast plumage of the hawk.

During the attack the goshawk changes tactics because the storklets defend themselves. It was left to push someone over the edge of the nest when flying past which also happens 5 minutes into the video.

The goshawk weighs probably just over a kilo and the storklets are beginning to approach a kilo.

Screencap from webcam IceAge, LK forum
Estonian text posted 16.06.2019

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Male Tõnn has arrived with prey

Greater spotted eagle      Suur-konnakotkas        Clanga clanga

Today the greater spotted eagle chick will be two weeks old.

Video recorded by Aita, LK forum
Estonian text posted 14.06.2019

Nightjar          Öösorr            Caprimulgus europaeus

Towards morning the second egg of the nightjars also hatched. Thus all took place on June 13 and 14.

The eggshells have been removed from the nest and at the end of the video we see the interaction between the newly hatched chick and the female bird.

Screencap from webcam  Michi, LK forum

Screencap from webcam  Liz, LK forum
Estonian text posted 15.06.2019

Who eats will grow

Black stork       Must- toonekurg      Ciconia nigra

Urmas Sellis visited the stork nest. The transmitter for the camera signal had changed direction in the stormy weather and this was corrected. Fortunately the tree where the transmitter  was installed in the tip had not broken. Not even the cables had to be repaired.

Since there is good reason to write today we can also note that the storklets will be a month old tomorrow; these three youngsters were all hatched on May 16

Screencap from  webcam  IceAge, LK forum
Estonian test posted 14.06.2019

Female  Tiiu feeding the only remaining chick in the nest

Greater spotted eagle          Suur-konnakotkas          Clanga clanga

Regardless of the number of eggs in the nest (sometimes they are even three) only one chick fledges (the fledging of two nestlings has been noted only once in Estonia). A pity but cainism is encoded in the life of greater spotted eagles.

Tiiu feeds the larger nestling with prey brought by male  Tõnn  – small rodents constitute about 3/4 , the remainder consists of birds as well as frogs.

Screencap from webcam yesterday  Anne7, LK forum
Estonian text posted 13.06.2019

Image from nest camera from yesterday

Black stork           Must-toonekurg        Ciconia nigra

Yesterday heavy thunderstorms with strong winds raged in South Estonia.

It can be supposed that a nearby tree has broken: there is a connection to the camera but very slow, probably something has happened to the transmitter .

Text and illustrations  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee

Estonian text posted 12.06.2019

The doings of the Ura beavers brought them into camera view already a minute past midnight. Shortly before three o’clock when the forest birds already woke up and started singing the beavers had been swimming, alone or two together, past the camera exactly 21 times –an active night. 

The water level had suddenly decreased in the pond and it can be  supposed that they worried about the condition of the dam about 50 meters away. During the next two hours the beavers came in camera view only five times so they were probably engaged in the dam construction. From five o’clock in the morning they were no longer to be seen, probably they were settling down to the day’s sleep … 

Screencap from webcam  Sappheira, LK forum
Estonian text posted 12.06.2019

Male Ivo must be praised

Osprey          Kalakotkas            Pandion haliaetus 

In the Kalakotkas 2 camera nest in Tartumaa the eagle chicks have become a week on average. The first were hatched on June 4 and 5 and the smallest among the chicks on June 7.

In the forum the regular viewers praise male Ivo (to the left in the photo and ringed) compared to male Marko from the Võrumaa nest. The daily catch of fish is 6:5 to the advantage of Ivo.

Video recorded by  Liz, LK forum
Estonian text posted 11.06.2019

At half past twelve the chick was hatched.

Screencaps from webcam  Timea, LK forum

The chick has been hatched and the interfering egg shells have been removed from the nest by female bird Maia

Screencap from webcam  IceAge, LK forum
Estonian text posted 09.06.2019

 In the heavy rain with thunder  at night the nest forest became quite wet and mother Tiiu seems quite soaked

Greater spotted eagle    Suur-konnakotkas         Clanga clanga

The older GSE chick is a week old; its instincts make it harass the three days younger hatchling. About Cainism in greater spotted eagle nests we have already written.

Video recorded by  Tatjana; LK forum
Estonian text posted 06.06.2019

The egg shells have been placed on the nest verge

Greater spotted eagle          Suur-konnakotkas         Clanga clanga

In April Tiiu laid two eggs, the first one on April 23 and the next on April 27. The incubation time until the hatching of the first chick on June 2 was forty days and for the second chick, hatched on June 5, one day less.  Ornithologists know that greater spotted eagles start incubating as soon as the first egg has been laid,

Screencaps from webcam  Tatyana, LK forum
Estonian text posted 03.06.2019

Mother  Tiiu and hatched eagle chick

Greater spotted eagle       Suur-konnakotkas        Clanga clanga

The nest life of the greater spotted eagles started already on April 23 when Tiiu laid the first egg. Laying another egg takes time for the large birds and we saw it in the nest on April 27.