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Arrival of unknown black stork

Black stork      Must-toonekurg       Ciconia nigra

Video, photos and text Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
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Somewhere quite close to Tallinn , in an old summer house area by the sea, now turned into a green area, the great spotted woodpecker has its nest.

Linnuvaatleja news, www.linnuvaatleja.ee

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On Sunday afternoon (June 25^th) the hatching of the chicks could be watched in the nest in the tree trunk. It is surprising that the chicks hatched just then, since the great tit laid the last egg, the eighth one, in the nest only on June 16th. Normal calculations predicted that the chicks would not begin to hatch until June 28th (read here: When does a great tit actually start incubating? ). http://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en/node/1446

Photos Arne Ader

Glowworm light

A half-hour journey of a glowworm on a straw of grass.

The story of the "fern flower" told below is even more complicated

On this somewhat magical night we have deliberately searched for ”glowworms”, some of us surely also for the ”fern flower”. The one in a group who first finds a glowing glowworm will enjoy good luck this year.

Only the female glowworm glows – she has not been given the power of flight. The male glowworm, her suitor, is capable of flying and has to be tempted to approach by the glow

Photos Arne Ader
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Ox-eye daisies

Oxeye daisy      Harilik härjasilm      Leucanthemum vulgare

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The flower of the oxeye daisy resembles that of the corn chamomile, but it is nearly twice as big. The corn chamomile, earlier a common weed in fields, has by now become so rare that even many botanists have never seen it growing.