Starling Camera

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Estonian text posted 27.05.2018

A couple of the larger starling chicks sit by turns at the opening of the nest box, for them the nearest neighbourhood should already be familiar …

Starling        Kuldnokk       Sturnus vulgaris

The starling chicks have grown big, there is almost no space more in the nest … The work and toil of the adults can be seen as successful at this stage.

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Estonian text posted 21.05.2018

Feeding of starling chicks

Starling      Kuldnokk        Sturnus vulgaris

The four starling chicks, hatched one day earlier than the others, were two weeks old today. The difference in growth of the older ones is still noticeable.

The weather has been in all ways pleasant for the development of the chicks – with the warm weather many insects, their larva and caterpillars move around..

Already today the more daring starling chicks were at the nest opening.

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Estonian text posted 18-05.2018

Starling chicks resting in daytime

Starling        Kuldnokk        Sturnus vulgaris

The last two summery nights the starling chicks have spent on their own.

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Estonian text posted 16.05.2018

Starling        Kuldnokk        Sturnus vulgaris

As of today the starling chicks that hatched two days later also became one week old.

The development of the six chicks in a week looks remarkable but the pressure on the diligent  adults grows – ever more food is needed.

When can we then expect the fledging of the chicks? Realistically at one week old but with luck it might be a few days earlier …

Let us keep an eye on events.

Webshot  Seira, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 10.05.2018

Early morning feeding

Starling    Kuldnokk        Sturnus vulgaris     

Yesterday evening the busy female bird allowed us glimpses of what seemed like a fifth hatched starling chick...

By early morning all six starling chicks were in the nest, the egg shells were tidied out of the nest box and are lying about somewhere on the ground nearby – the starlings do not hide the hatching of their chicks.

Webscrap IceAge, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 28.04. 2018

By ten thirty there were six eggs in the nest

Starling             Kuldnokk         Sturnus vulgaris

Video Jassi, LK forum

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Estonian text posted 26.04.2018

In the morning at 10 o’clock the female had laid an egg …

Starling        Kuldnokk        Sturnus vulgaris

The strength of passerines to lay eggs always feels amazing, how does the body of a small bird have this capacity?

When we crack open a hen’s egg in the course of cooking we notice a small white dot on the yolk – it is the germinal disc  from which the chick develops. The developing chick feeds on the yolk during the incubation.

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Estonian text posted 27.04.2018

By 10 o’clock in the morning the fifth egg was in the nest box

Starling      Kuldnokk       Sturnus vulgaris

By today there are five eggs in the nest box  and four of them the female laid each subsequent morning. In case of passerines it may be noted that the female uses about 60% of her daily energy need  for laying an egg.

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Estonian text posted 25.04.2018

The third egg the starling laid half past 10

Starling            Kuldnokk        Sturnus vulgaris

The first egg we spotted in the nest box in the evening of April 22, the second in the morning of April 24 and the third in the morning of April 25.

Screencap from webcam IceAge, LK forum

Video recorded by  Barry Ruck
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Estonian text posted 24.04.2018

The second egg this morning…

Starling          Kuldnokk      Sturnus vulgaris

At about half past nine it seemed that the starling female was laying an egg and a quarter of an hour later we could see a second egg in the nest box.

The first egg came into the nest box in the evening of April 22, the second in the morning of April 24. Let us wait and see,  most commonly the female lays five to six eggs.