Text  Ivar Ojaste

Images  Aivar Leito

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Estonian text posted 08.10. 2018

Cranes  “Soits 1“and  “Soits 2“ left their home in  Elistvere on September 18th, and at the moment are staying in the Hortobagy National Park in East Hungary

Dear Friends,

During their autumn migration the 9 cranes, ringed and wearing satellite transmitters on the initiative of Aivar Leito who recently left us, have reached Germany, Poland and Hungary.

Linnuvaatleja introduces new book in English

Birding Estonia, the first comprehensive guide in English to birdwatching in Estonia for birdwatchers and tourists interested in nature has been published.

Text and illustrations  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee

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Estonian text posted 08.10.2018

Last week the barnacle geese reached Estonia and came into the Haeska camera view too – they were clearly a couple of weeks late or even more. The warm weather kept them in place in the north until the last moment and so they were not seen in September except a few small groups of local origin.

Yesterday’s radar observation in Esivere showed for the first time this large migration of various bird species from the Arctic that reached an order of hundreds of thousand individuals. A favourable slight northern wind set the birds moving.

Text: Jaan Riis, Looduse Omnibuss
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Estonian text posted 07.10.2018

The 20th season of the Looduse Omnibus Nature Nights at the National Library in Tallinn starts on Monday October 8th at 18.00 Estonian time  with the Night of Mountains. Our guests are young mountaineer Uko Nõulik, the EV100 anniversary year Estonia Expedition leader Raivo Plumer and the group Bonzo.

On August 14th this year the youngest Estonian mountaineer until now, 12 year old Uku Nõulik,  reached the tip of the highest peak in Europe, Elbrus. On Monday he will talk about how he prepared for this and how easy  or difficult the conquest of the peak was.

This forum, literally for citizen science, started 10 years ago. Registered members at  the moment are 3756, subjects handled 635, more than 600 000 posts…

Photo and text Epp Harmon.

The first Forum meeting in Alliklepa at the Looduskalender field site. Autumn 2008.

To tell it all from the beginning we have to look back ten years and across an ocean. Back then viewers of the black stork web camera of Looduskalender were from the whole world. By chance we gathered at that time in the Canadian Hancock Wildlife Foundation forum.