Text: Urmas Sellis, EOÜ
Photos: Hagnat (LK forum); Ain Nurmla, Urmas Sellis

Transmission provided by  Tele2 and EENet

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Estonian text posted 14.04.2018

For the third season we can follow the black stork pair nesting in the Karula National Park. There is a series of photos about the first installation of the camera and its prehistory on the ELF (Estonian Fund for Nature) community work page. At the installation of the camera this year the old nest had halfway collapsed and we built an artificial nest beside it.

Images  Šveitsi Eesti Selts – Estonian Swiss Association

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Estonian text posted 14.04.2018

 

To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Estonia, the Swiss Estonian Association presented Switzerland with one hundred nest boxes to protect endangered bird species. The organizers have made a video introducing the project.

In March  the „100 linnumaja Eesti sajandaks“ (100 nest boxes for Estonia 100 years ) entered the home stretch with the installation of the last nest box and an opening celebration held in Biel-Benken – the birds can move in.

Video recorded by  Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

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Estonian text posted 13.04.2018

 

 

Golden eagle          Kaljukotkas or maakotkas       Aquila chrysaetos

 

Already in winter the Eagle Club installed a camera at the nest of the golden eagles in Soomaa so that the watchful birds would be less disturbed by people moving around. The eagle pair visited the nest with varying frequency, brought new nest materials and marked it with fresh green twigs …

 

Urmas Sellis:

Photo Arne Ader
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Estonian text posted 13.04.2018

Mezereon

 

Mezereon; Daphne        Harilik näsiniin         Daphne mezereum

 

 

Before the trees come into leaf, a  sparsely branched low shrub flowers in the still sunny ground layers of the bare mixed forests, sometimes even with only one branch with lilac flowers – the mezereon.

The plant prefers chalk-rich habitats, even mildly fresh but fertile soils – for instance sunny underwoods under hazels.

Text Urmas Sellis
Video recorded by  liznm, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 11.04.2018

 

 

White-tailed eagle; Sea eagle      Merikotkas      Haliaeëtus albicilla

 

 

Are two eggs better than one?

If you have a choice, then surely. But in the Estonian white-tailed eagles’ (Suvi and Sulev) nest with webcam there is not much choice – only one egg remains in the nest.

The second egg was broken on the morning of April 5th and the remnants  were removed by the adults from the nest.