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Photo: Karl Jakob Toplaan

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The transmission is made by the ITrats Posted by Looduskalender - L, 30.04.2016 - 00.45 Authors The transmission is made by the ITrats Photo: Karl Jakob Toplaan .

Text Triin Leetmaa

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I was asked to play child-minder to a seven-year-old chit of a girl. We watched multifilms and talked for at bit but as sunset approached we went into the forest for adventures. We walked and climbed in the trees when I suddenly noticed that we had reached the badger castle. I tried to explani what kind of place this was when I was suddenly told that someone had looked out of the mouth of the den opening that we were standing beside. With a slight smile I tried to find out what the creature looked like. The reply was very concrete: ”White and some black too!“  Was it the imagination of the child or did the badger really greet its visitors? It did make me a little envious.

Maire lets us know

Photos Arne Ader

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Cuckoo

.I was in the country today in the forest near the Koidula (Värska) border post and heard the cuckoo calling. It called in the Kolodovitsa village forest at about two o’clock in the day. The weather was sunny and quite warm. I also found some false morels or turban fungi (Gyromitra esculenta). They however were very small

Turban fungus, Gyromitra esculenta

Photos Arne Ader

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Golden saxifrage 

 

Golden saxifrage      Harilik lepiklill    Chrysosplenium alternifolium

 

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The golden saxifrages flower in wet bog forests, on the banks of water bodies throughout the whole mainland, but for the Saaremaa people the golden saxifrage is unknown.

The golden saxifrage has a peculiar appearance, light yellowish green in colour and even the leaves in the same colour, creating a nice collar around the inflorescence which in turn is supported by the leaves or bracts. The bracts are fleshy and with serrated margins. The golden saxifrage is not easily confused with any other plant

Image captured by  Lussi, LK forum

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Black stork pair at nest, male Karl at left replaces brooding female Kati

 

Black stork     Must-toonekurg        Ciconia nigra

 

 

A brief survey: the eggs appeared in Kati’s nest on April 12, 14, 16 and 17. The incubation time lasts about one month for large birds, so we can begin to expect hatching of the chicks from mid-May.

The last couple of days with rain and cold weather was replaced by sunshine today – it dries the nest a little; the adults are busy draining the bottom.