Koprakaamera uudised

Final story and illustrations  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Estonian text posted 11.10.2019

The beaver camera that was installed in the Kilingi-Nõmme hunting grounds in Pärnumaa at the end of May has ended transmission.  

At the lodge in Ura two beavers were active until one of the animals was hit by a suddenly breaking tree. The tree fell so quickly and unexpectedly that the animal in the water could not escape the falling trunk. After this incident we have not managed to see two beavers at the same time in camera view. One animal was busy daily in camera view a week longer; in the following week it  was observed only a few times and after that disappeared completely.

Below a video reminder of the hit: 

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.

Video recorded by  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Estonian text posted 24.07.2019

Beaver          Kobras or  piiber       Castor fiber

 

A rare event was seen in the nature webcam in Ura. A broken tree on the river bank fell into the water and hit a beaver that had been feasting in the water.

Beavers are herbivores; in summer aquatic plants as well as meadowsweets, sedges and also nettles on the bank are on their menu

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 … 

Transmission provided by  EENet
Introduction and illustrations Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Estonian text posted 26.05.2019

Transmission enabled by EENet

Introduction and illustrations  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 04.04.2019

Text and images  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Translation Liis

Estonian text posted 31.10.2017

We will leave the beavers to their own doings for now and end the direct stream transmission from the webcam at the beaver dam.

Text and photos Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee

Screencap Maertha, LK forum
Translation Liis

Estonian text published 21.07.2017

Beaver      Kobras       Castor fiber

For some time we could observe the doings of the beavers through two cameras.

Video and webcam screencaps Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Translation Liis

Beaver          Kobras        Castor fiber

After midnight when our sight only barely still distinguishes the forest outline against the background of sky the camera ”sees” even in colour as the video shows.

Introduction Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Transmission courtesy of Elisa and EENet

Translation Liis