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Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum
Photo Arne Ader
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Mallard     Sinikael-part     Anas platyrhynchos

…and so they have arrived at the spawning ground – three individuals passed the camera.

In the dry summer last year the water level was some twenty centimetres lower and the mallards could successfully loot the spawning nests of the brown trout. With a higher water level it is more complicated for them and the video shows this too.

The body length of mallards is about half a meter or a little more, adults weigh a kilo or some hundred grams more.

Text Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
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Brown trout   Jõeforell or hõrnas   Salmo trutta morpha fario

Video record  Ahto Täpsi
Photo Arne Ader
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Path of woodcock on Wednesday morning in the snow in Virumaa

Woodcock; European woodcock  Metskurvits; folk name also nepp         Scolopax rusticola

The snow on Wednesday morning quite likely surprised the bird too; for food it looks for all kinds of creepy-crawlies in the mud with its long beak. There is no panic yet to leave towards south since the soil surface is not yet frozen.

Most woodcocks have already headed towards south but some that spend the winter here can be seen almost every year.