Videos

Video recorded by  Olle Koert, www.tt.ee

Image from webcam captured by  Felis Silvestris, LK forum

Translation Liis

Great tit       Rasvatihane     Parus major

Early on Sunday morning the nest box of the great tits was empty and desolate. The female spent the night in the nest box and the male guarded the surroundings to keep off intruders or even other nest contenders.

Image from webcam captured by  Shanta, LK forum

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum

Translation  Liis

By Saturday  morning the great tit had laid an egg

Great tit     Rasvatihane      Parus major

Great tits nest everywhere in Estonia and this year about 300-400 thousand great tit pairs will build a nest.  In camera view birds have spent the night in all nests but the egg is in the first nest box. There is quite a lot to tell about our ordinary great tits during the breeding season.

This year, the Badger Year, Latvian zoologists installed several track cameras in protected Latvian forests. As in Estonia, our southern neighbours until now have no proper overview of their badger population. To complement the knowledge about badgers the Latvian forest agency Silava chose three large badger castles in northwestern Latvia in a nature reserve area, installed the cameras and now have sent us pictures and video cuts. In the video we can see how the badger –   āpsis in Latvian  – scratches itself. The other members of the large castle are not visible at the moment but it is known that a large number of inhabitants live there, more than in the home of our video stars in Saaremaa.

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum

Translation Liis

Goshawk; Northern goshawk     Kanakull     Accipiter gentilis

To start with, the goshawk pair nesting in Riga city had 4 greenish-white eggs in the nest already in the evening of Wednesday, April 13. With this the clutch was complete; incubation goes on and can last 35 to 42 days.

Video recorded by Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

Family photo captured by  Ame, LK forum

Translation Liis

White-tailed eagle    Merikotkas       Haliaeëtus albicilla

Yesterday morning first-time mother Anna had to feed the newly hatched chick for the first time. There was no doubt that the instincts developed over the millennia would not start working, but sometimes it may happen that a bond between the female and the chicks is not created. Today things already run nicely, but a good thing that no new chicks have hatched in the nest…