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My ForestCornflower blue
Text Kristel Vilbaste
Photo Arne Ader
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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
Info from Estonian VTA
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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.
VIDEO: Starling at birdfeeder
Video recorded by Bea, LK forum
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Starling Kuldnokk Sturnus vulgaris
The winter this year lasted three weeks in January and of course wintering starlings were also seen. They were already moving in larger groups from the beginning of the month –probably arrivals from the south.
White-tailed eagle nest camera 2016
The white-tailed eagle camera is located at a nest in West Estonia, a neighbour to the nest of Linda and Sulev that we have watched previously. Installation of the camera took two days in mid-January (it was still cold weather then, around -15⁰C), taking part were Renno, Omar, Triin and Urmas. Later Renno and Omar had to adjust a few minor details.
Are city or country tits healthier?
Year of the Great Tit science news conveyed by Marko Mägi UT Bird Ecology researcher
Photo Arne Ader
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