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Badgers already making longer tours

Screencap from webcam W. Zwar

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Estonian text posted 13.03.2019

Badger at the deer feeding ground

This badger usually moves in the dark, being on a foraging trip.

During winter they went out from the burrows in warmer weather but then always close to the nest. More frequently in daytime, to breath fresh air and when possible show themselves to the sun.

In winter the badgers have had a thorough slimming period: a full-grown individual now weighs about nine kilos.

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About buzzards migrating now

Photos Arne Ader and Wikipedia

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Estonian text posted 10.03.2019

Buzzard ( www.loodusemees.ee)

Buzzard Hiireviu Buteo buteo

Rough-legged buzzard Karvasjalg-viu or taliviu Buteo lagopus

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100 m long beaver dam at Esna – a year later

The Esna beavers have felled birches in March 2019.
Photo: Ingmar Muusikus
Estonian text posted by the Animal of the Year Team
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Hundred meter long beaver dams occur rarely in Estonia. One such giant structure was built by the beaver group at the Esna springs. Evidently the dam, dividing the swampy spring area, was ready already in 2017. The hard-working creatures had unknown to themselves made an early symbolic gift for Estonia’s jubilee. By 2019 the landscape view had changed somewhat.