Text and video Mati Sepp
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On leaving home we never know how many sparrows on the branch we will see or if we will hear the nightingale singing in the shrubs at all, but when we go along a forest path there is always the dream deep down that we might meet a bear. But to be honest, even with the growing population of bears in Estonia it is almost impossible to meet them. The reason is very simple, bears deliberately avoid contact with humans and the occasions are few when the bear has not detected the human; in such rare cases it is possible to meet them. So it happened to me.

Urmas Sellis and Ain Nurmla worked as experts should on the ringing of the storklets. The nest tree is not the easiest for this work. But the experience of Urmas with black storks and eagles goes back already for decades. Thanks!

Screencap Solo, LK forum

Video Ame, LK forum

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