June 2019

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. 

 

The Bird of the Year web camera was installed by Eagle Club (Kotkaklubi ) and Birdlife Estonia (Eesti Ornitoloogiaühing)
Transmission provided by  EENet
The project is supported by KIK (Estonian Environmental Investment Centre)

Estonian text posted 05.06.2019

The nest in Hiiumaa was found by Renno Nellis in the last week of May when there was one egg. At the time of camera installation there were two eggs in the nest, white and flecked in grey and brown; this is the usual size of a nightjar clutch.

Video recorded by  Gavril, LK forum
Essttonian text posted 30.05.2019

 

 

Osprey      Kalakotkas               Pandion haliaetus

 

At noon the second chick in the nest was hatched.

In the video we can see male Marko at the left  and mother Miina feeding the chicks. It seems as if family life in the nest is still a little strange to Miina and she must listen to her maternal instincts, or maybe this is her first clutch? From what do we conclude this: yesterday she tried to feed a chick still in the egg shell … But surely she will adapt to the circumstances.

Screencap from web camera  Sova, LK forum
Estonian text posted 29.05.2019

The first osprey chick hatches in Võrumaa today, the situation at half past five in the morning 

Osprey             Kalakotkas         Pandion haliaetus

 

The chick’s voice is audible already several hours earlier.

Mother Miina laid the first egg on April 22, the second on April 23 and the third on April 26. On May 2, one egg was lost from the nest in the cover of darkness, read more: LINK