September 2019

Summary prepared by Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Estonian text posted 20.09.2019

The beaver camera that has been monitoring life on the shore of Penijõgi in the MatsaluNational Park has finished its transmission.

The web camera was installed near the beaver hut in order to see the animal of the year and its doings more closely. Although the inhabitants of the nest were not very eager to appear in camera view very often viewers managed to see in action and hear a great number of different mammal and bird species in addition to the beavers here at the edge of the largest reed field along the coast of the Baltic.

The Matsalu Nature Film Festival has started

http://www.matsalufilm.ee/en/

About the film programme in the Theatre Hall

https://www.matsalufilm.ee/en/theater-hall/

List of films

https://www.matsalufilm.ee/en/films/

The Photo Day takes place on Saturday

https://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en/node/3844 (in Estonian)

What to see in the Matsalu Nature Film Festival

Sound recorded by  Fleur, LK forum
Estonian text posted 13.09.2019 

Jackal or Golden jackal          Šaakal or  harilik šaakal      Canis aureus

Summary in Estonian written by  Urmas Sellis
Estonian text posted 03.09.2019

In March, before installing the web camera in the nest, we waited impatiently for the start of male bird Karl’s migration. Karl did have a tracking device but the lack of GSM cover in southern Sudan kept us in the dark during four months, from mid-November 2018 when Karl reached his wintering site. However, on March 16 during the spring migration Karl’s locations were registered and all seemed to be in order. We had nearly two weeks of time to install the camera at the nest. The nest could be seen in the web camera from March 24 onwards.

Videos recorded by  Freddie, LK forum
Estonian text posted 04.09.2019

Male Ivo still feeds young birds Pilvi and Nele who are busy near the nest

Osprey             Kalakotkas           Pandion haliaetus 

The young ospreys  are  three months old and they will not be seen around the nest for long any more, Male Ivo still feeds the young birds quite generously and with reason because the independent life of the young birds on migration is not an easy one, particularly when the skills of fishing are still only recently learned, Today the cries of the young birds near the nest are still to be heard.

The female as well as one of the young birds has already gone on migration.

Estonian text posted 28,08,2019-09-11

Images from the nesting period compiled by  Marcos, LK forum

Osprey         Kalakotkas       Pandion haliaetus 

So the nesting of the ospreys in camera view has ended this year.

Our thanks to the viewers, the attentive members of the LK forum and their great work in covering the events.in the forum

Young bird  Juuli will be three months old on August 30 – a fair wind in Juuli’s wings!

Web camera image selected by  Sova, LK forum

Web camera image  Moira, LK forum
Estonian text posted 26.08.2018

Male Tõnn and young bird  Tuule in the nest

Greater spotted eagle      Suur-konnakotkas       Clanga clanga  

The camera images have not been possible to see  for a long time, the sun is already low on the horizon and the solar panels no longer manage to feed the batteries, but on Sunday the web camera worked.

Video edited by  Solo, LK forum
Estonian text posted 26.08.2019

Black stork     Must-toonekurg        Ciconia nigra

Starting today (August 26) the webcam will stop transmission from the web camera for this season. As a reminder, here is  a small summary of the nesting of female Kati and male Karl.

Web camera images by Tatjana, LK forum