Tawny Owl Camera News

Webcam image captured by  Maggy, LK forum

Translation Liis

Tawny owl   Kodukakk          Strix aluco

Klaara had been busy the whole night with feeding the chicks, with only brief intervals, but before daylight, at five o’clock in early morning, she had to go out to stretch her legs …

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum

Translation Liis

Tawny owl     Kodukakk       Strix aluco

When Klaus arrived at the nest with the evening meal* owl mum Klaara had something important to show… The family admiring the little miracle in the nest hollow.

Image from webcam captured by  Maggy, LK forum

Photo Veljo Runnel, https://runnel.smugmug.com/

Translation Liis

What little black pieces of rubbish are lying around on the nest bottom?

Tawny owl     Kodukakk        Strix aluco

Male Klaus brings Klaara 5-6 little rodents that he has caught during the evening and night. Klaara hears Klaus’ arrival from far away and the conversation of the tawny owl pair on passing the prey sounds quite loudly. What would the talk be about translated into human language – here we are all free to imagine ...

Webcam image captured by Maggy, LK forum

Translation Liis

Tawny owl

We see Klaus face-to-face for the first time this year. Usually he makes just a quick visit to bring some rodent to his brooding partner. Probably hunting will be easier för Klaus as warmer weather arrives and the snow thaws. Until now Klaara has been brought about 5-6 rodents every night.

During the night Klaara leaves the nest a couple of times for short whiles – body needs stretching, the nest hollow home is not the most comfortable of places.

Images from webcam captured by  Maggy, LK forum

Translation Liis

Early morning

Tawny owl     Kodukakk       Strix aluco

On Thursday Klaara somehow did not at all want to fly out in the evening from the nest hollow. Klaus came calling on her but it seemed more sensible to him to bring Klaara a mouse… In early morning the fourth egg was in the nest.

In stormy weather there may be interruptions in the webcam operation, but our viewers know that breaks occur in direct stream transmission from forest life from dozens of reasons.

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum
Translation Liis

Tawny owl        Kodukakk       Strix aluco

Klaara already knows that Klaus will bring something edible to the nest (we cannot hear those sounds).

In the beginning of the video the calls of Klaara and the more masculine “approval” from male Klaus - when his beak is free from the food – can be clearly seen and heard. If the web camera is open in the background we can often have an idea in advance of the doings of the tawny owls.

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 record by Fleur, LK forum

Translation Liis

Tawny owl    Kodukakk      Strix aluco

On Saturday morning, at a quarter to eight, it seemed that Klaara had laid an egg. We could not be quite certain but had to wait until evening.

There are always reasons to get out in the evening: legs and wings need stretching, some food would be nice, company kept with Klaus.  And at 19.48 the second egg could be seen, before flying out Klaara turned the eggs with some clatter.

Videos by Liz, LK forum

Translation Liis

Tawny owl        Kodukakk        Strix aluco

 

Let us begin the story as it was written on Thursday night when we were waiting for Klaara to arrive in the nest. She did not arrive in the nest until Friday morning at 6  o’clock. Thus she was absent from the nest for 11 hours.

Video recorded by Fleur, LK forum

Translation Liis

Tawny owl       Kodukakk       Strix aluco

At about half past three in the afternoon Klaara was shifting in the nest somehow nervously. Our viewers got to see the egg in the evening, at a quarter past six.

Congratulations to the tawny owl pair!

The video also shows glimpses of Klaus, who is feeding Klaara as a caring husband should.