Text Kristel Vilbaste
Photo from Vikipeedia
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The railway station building in Tartu in 2014

When I lived at the Peipsi shore for seven years train travel in Estonia became unfamiliar to me. There were simply no trains to Mustvee. From time to time we collected birch whisks and picked wild strawberries from the old railway embankment.

The only railway trips during that period I made in Europe, mostly from an airport to the city. Once, yes, I travelled a longer distance by train, from Malaga on the Spanish sun coast to Cordoba. Train travel was slower than by air, more troublesome and actually probably more expensive.

Video record  Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee
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Grey seal     Hallhüljes     Halichoerus grypus

Actually the seals began to gather at the beginning of the thaw, on Thursday. How did the ”greys” know that it would turn into a long-lasting thaw?

Judged by a glance it can be believed that there are well over three hundred there. Where many are together things always happens …

Introduction  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Transmission courtesy of  Teetormaja and Eenet
Technical support HATCAM
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Video record and text by  Ahto Täpsi
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Trail of brown bear tracks at Viinistu in Lahemaa

Brown bear    Pruunkaru or karu    Ursus arctos

A thaw has set in, probably the bear's bedding had gone wet – just try to sleep then … Or maybe sleep hadn’t come properly yet? Such weather really does not favour hibernation.