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VIDEO: Both nightjar chicks hatched

Video recorded by Aita, LK forum
Estonian text posted 14.06.2019

 

 

Nightjar          Öösorr            Caprimulgus europaeus

 

Towards morning the second egg of the nightjars also hatched. Thus all took place on June 13 and 14.

The eggshells have been removed from the nest and at the end of the video we see the interaction between the newly hatched chick and the female bird.

Screencap from webcam  Michi, LK forum

Black stork camera works

Screencap from webcam  Liz, LK forum
Estonian text posted 15.06.2019

Who eats will grow

 

Black stork       Must- toonekurg      Ciconia nigra

 

Urmas Sellis visited the stork nest. The transmitter for the camera signal had changed direction in the stormy weather and this was corrected. Fortunately the tree where the transmitter  was installed in the tip had not broken. Not even the cables had to be repaired.

One chick left in greater spotted eagle nest

Screencap from  webcam  IceAge, LK forum
Estonian test posted 14.06.2019

Female  Tiiu feeding the only remaining chick in the nest

 

Greater spotted eagle          Suur-konnakotkas          Clanga clanga

 

Regardless of the number of eggs in the nest (sometimes they are even three) only one chick fledges (the fledging of two nestlings has been noted only once in Estonia). A pity but cainism is encoded in the life of greater spotted eagles.

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