Text written and photos and videos selected by  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee

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Estonian text posted 11.04.2018

 

Last year in the autumn we installed the web Camera at the Metsküla shore, in a site from where at about five kilometres distance in 2013 the first evidence came to prove the presence of the golden jackal   (Canis aureus) in Estonia.

Now we will leave the jackals on their own in Metsküla and bring to mind who has been seen and heard in camera view during the five months. 

Already in the evening at the installation of the camera the ringing howl  of two jackals sounded from the beach. The jackals here also howl at propeller-driven airplanes and the evening plane between Kuressaare and Tallinn almost always made the animals howl .

 

 

Camera view is transmitted by  Teetormaja

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Estonian text posted 11.04.2018

We will follow the doings in a starling nest box. Viewers will remember the events of last year between the competing females that made the nesting fail

Video recorded by Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee
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Estonian text posted 08.04.2018

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Work is carried out with the  dedication and confidence of the masters of the nest. It will be home for several months and must  be marked and decorated.

The exciting springtime period continues, calls and hoots are  heard from everywhere …

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 09.04.2018

 

Klaara shows an interest in Klaus’s doings around the nest trunk by hooting

 

Tawny owl       Kodukakk         Strix aluco

 

We will look a  little while back in time on what has happened and is happening in the  tawny owl  nest hollow, and briefly forward.

Klaara laid the first egg into the nest hollow in the trunk on March 30th, the next ones on  April 2nd and 5th: so it works for tawny owls, with intervals of a couple of days. It seems that the egg clutch is complete.

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 08.04.2018

When evening begins wings have to be stretched for a bit.

 

Tawny  owl             Kodukakk      Strix aluco

Observing the peaceful home life in the owl nest we can see that female Klaara has three eggs in the nest in the tree trunk.

So the first egg on March 30th, the second one on April 2nd and the third on April 5th. Let us hope that the clutch is complete