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VIDEO: Happenings at badger den

Submitted by Looduskalender on Sat, 27.02.2016 - 21:33
Trail camera video Mats Kangur
Activity track images recorded by  Tiit Hunt
 
Badger    Mäger        Meles meles
 
The reading of this year’s track book was confoundingly tricky. There is no lasting snow cover nor daytime thaw and a new fresh snow layer on it. Because of this we have not reported the mating moves of felines nor canines  - the tracks simply will not tell a clear story.
 
Of course the larger predators make their tours at the badger burrows.

White-tailed eagles and "98"

Submitted by Looduskalender on Fri, 26.02.2016 - 00:42
Text: Urmas Sellis (Eagle Club)
Images from webcam: Urmas, Michi, Mutikluti)
Translation Liis
When we celebrate Estonia’s 98th anniversary  the eagles are prepared to do so too.
 
Two days before the Anniversary of the Estonian Republic the female arrived in the white-tailed eagle nest where the webcam is installed. The male who until then had guarded the nest alone at once became active, started to arrange nest material, brought more branches, talked with his mate.
 
Paar

The white-tailed eagle pair that we watch is not quite typical because the female is smaller than the male.

Two faces of one phenomenon

Submitted by Looduskalender on Wed, 24.02.2016 - 21:59
Photo Arne Ader
Translation Liis
 
Glaze frost on birch branches
 
A winter rainfall that freezes on the ground is called glaze ice, but when it does so on trees, power lines or or on objects above ground in general then glaze frost.
 
Yesterday ice rain fell from nimbostratus clouds, dark, low-level clouds, at a height of about one kilometre and this weather phenomenon we can still feel in the next few days.
 
The precipitation of ice rain is caused by a warm air layer when the

Cornflower blue

Submitted by Looduskalender on Wed, 24.02.2016 - 21:41
Text Kristel Vilbaste
Photo Arne Ader
Translation Liis
It is fitting to talk about our national symbols at the Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia on February 24th: limestone boulders, sturdy junipers, barn swallows … and cornflowers.
 
Cornflower blue has enchanted me for years. Maybe because I remember from my childhood preparing herbarium pages together with my grandmother. Preserving the cornflower blue was the most difficult part in drying plants. But Grandmother’s work bore fruit and the blue has survived until today.
 
Until today I have not connected the actions at the end of the 1960ies with the choice of the cornflower as our national flower. Yes, from 1969 the cornflower is the national flower of Estonia.

Current stand of AFS

Submitted by Looduskalender on Tue, 23.02.2016 - 22:03
Info from Estonian  VTA
Translation Liis
African Swine Fever (AFS) zones.
 
According to data at the Estonian Veterinary and Food Board (Veterinaar- ja Toiduamet, VTA)  AFS was found in 51 cases in the period February 9-15:  30 positive tests in samples from boar found dead and from 21 that were shot by hunters.

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