Video recorded by  Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

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White-tailed eagle, Sea eagle       Merikotkas      Haliaeëtus albicilla

For recapitulation, WTE pair  Anna and Uku had their first egg on Women’s day, the second on March 11 and the third on March 14th. Incubation time for the large and powerful birds is calculated to be 38 days, thus we may see WTE chicks hatching already this week.

Video recorded by  Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

Photo Arne Ader

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Goshawk nest in Riga city

Goshawk, Northern goshawk    Kanakull     Accipiter gentilis

Goshawk numbers have declined significantly as compared to a couple of decades ago. This year nesters are less than half a thousand pairs. Reasons differ of course but goshawks do not tolerate intensive forest managing, their habitats have always been held to be the oldest and largest mixed forest areas. In recent years, a few individuals have been active in cities, even  Tallinn. Our “birds of prey men” have promised to write about this soon.

Photo Arne Ader

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White stork building nest

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It would be very interesting to know what the white storks do whose nests on the power lines have been demolished?

We often go by train in the  Rapla direction and it is always nice to see the stork nests along the railway but last week all nests on top of the electricity poles were gone (destroyed). How will the storks behave now: do they build a new nest in the same place or do they leave for another place altogether?

I think many of us are interested in the fate of the storks

Video recorded by Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

Webcam images captured by  Liz, LK forum
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Buzzard pair admiring the little miracle on the bottom of the nest

Common buzzard     Hiireviu      Buteo buteo

If the egg hadn’t been visible we wouldn’t have dared to say anything; even for female buzzard Mari it was quite time-consuming to ”fish” for it on the nest bottom.