Text: Urmas Sellis, Kotkaklubi
Transmission courtesy of  Kernel and EENet
Translation  Liis

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Image from webcam captured by  Bea, LK forum

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum

Translation Liis

… at 19.01

Tawny owl    Kodukakk      Strix aluco

At the evening flight outside, at seven o’clock, there was a third egg in the nest hollow. Very  rarely five eggs are found in a tawny owl clutch (literature indicates a possibility of up to eight eggs), more often there are three eggs here: round, white ones, the size of a ping-pong ball.

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum

Image from webcam captured by  Lussi, LK forum

Translation Liis

Buzzard; Common buzzard    Hiireviu         Buteo buteo

Yesterday snow fell briefly in daytime in almost all of Estonia except in the islands.

Buzzard pair Mari and Mihkel, familiar to us from last year, showed themselves briefly for the first time at the nest on Sunday afternoon. In the video we see that yesterday they were already busy with ”nest decorating”.

The buzzard camera will open in the next few days.

Image from webcam captured by  Mutikluti, LK forum

Translation Liis

White-tailed eagle     Merikotkas       Haliaeetus albicilla

We were a little too quick with yesterday’s incubation story – in early morning light the view opened on female Anna’s third egg, probably laid late yesterday evening. Now the clutch should be complete.

So the first egg for Women’s Day, the second on March 11th and the last one on March 14th. Incubation is in process and we might begin to expect the hatching of eaglets from April 11^th onwards.

Image from webcam captured by  Mutikluti, LK forum

Translation Liis

Male eagle  Uku was allowed to be stand-in on the nest for only a few minutes…

White-tailed eagle    Merikotkas      Haliaeëtus albicilla

The incubation time of our largest birds will be quite long. Information in literature varies but we might expect the hatching of eaglets in the camera nest around  April 11th.  First, the ”surprise” egg of the eagle pair appeared on Women’s Day, the next one on March 11th. The  full clutch of white-tailed eagles generally consists of 1-3 eggs.