The white-tailed eagle camera is located at a nest in West Estonia, a neighbour to the nest of Linda and Sulev that we have watched previously.
Video recorded by Venegor, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 25.03.2018
White-tailed eagle Merikotkas Haliaeëtus albicilla
For the first time since the start of the egg-laying male Sulev brought a prey to the nest for his partner. Not a fish but a migratory bird.
At sea there are areas with open water but fish seldom gather in such places. Rather they still keep in the safe shelter of the ice cover.
Screencap by Laranjeiras, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 21.03.2018
White-tailed eagle Merikotkas Haliaeëtus albicilla
We were expecting an egg in the nest tonight – and it did arrive.
So the first egg was in the nest on Sunday evening, March 18th; today after five o’clock the second egg, on March 21st. If everything proceeds nicely we may expect the laying of a third egg on Saturday afternoon.
White-tailed eagle Merikotkas Haliaeëtus albicilla
The female carrying out this year’s important event and the male encouraging her…
Today the eagle pair have taken turns to warm the egg in the nest. In early evening a snowfall started but we have seen the birds incubating in a heap of snow in earlier years too.
Which bird is in the nest? By her dark eyes we recognize the female (really simple to distinguish them this year).
Screencap from nest camera Laranjeiras, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 18.03.2018
The egg is difficult to see but it is in the nest
White-tailedeagle Merikotkas Haliaeëtus albicilla
Late-winter frosty and clear weather, in addition a strong westerly wind – in the eagle nest about 6 degrees of frost might be felt. The female cannot keep the egg without cover for long. The night will not be frosty but for tomorrow sleet is foretold!
Text Urmas Sellis (EOÜ, Eagle Club)
Images from LK forum members
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Estonian text posted 18.03.2018
Who then live in this nest? The answer might be – white-tailed eagles. But looking more precisely into the matter the nest owners are a white-tailed eagle pair. The one with the darker plumage and dark eyes is the female whom we met immediately after installing the camera (February 5th). According to the classical identification it might be said that the female is quite young (considering the eyes and the general colouring of the plumage). But the tail colouring points to a mature age. It is however not impossible that this bird has some kind of pigmentation deviation and the preponderance of dark colouring does not indicate youth? The female was suspicious towards the camera to start with and preferred rather to fly away from the foreign eye.
Review written by Urmas Sellis, Estonian Ornithological Society, www.eoy.ee
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Direct link to camera: LINK
There has been little movement in the white-tailed eagle nest that last year gathered a record number of clicks. Although sounds of eagles and others are heard from there. During the breeding period of 2016 the nest life of white-tailed eagles Anna and Uku was watched more than 10 million times. The main characters of this real life broadcast try to keep a more modest image this year. They have not even passed by in camera view. Whether they have flown past at a greater distance some time we don’t know.
Video recorded by Tuomokoo, LK forum
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White-tailed eagle Merikotkas Haliaeëtus albicilla
Small mishaps always happen to the eaglets hanging about in the nest tree – they cannot estimate a gust of wind, or become too daring. Large birds, wing span already a couple of metres, and so they need not particularly fear a fall. Calls can be heard from a couple of branch layers below.
Last year there was a similar accident in the white-tailed eagle nest, see the previous video as reminder LINK
Video recorded by Ame, LK forum
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White-tailed eagle Merikotkas Haliaeëtus albicilla
A few minutes earlier female eagle Anna again arrived with a fish to coax the eaglets out of the nest. She showed nicely how to throw oneself from a branch so that the wind carries you - and left with the fish.
8.35 was departure time for one eaglet. Flying does work when you really want to or when hunger pinches.
Video recorded by Elena, LK forum
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White-tailed eagle Merikotkas Haliaeëtus albicilla
After a week nothing is left of the white-tailed eagles’ nest. After the storm the adults fed the eaglets frequently (in a storm fishing is not possible even for eagles) and kept close to the nest (providing support to the eaglets?).
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