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Video and image Fleur, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 04.05.2018

Klaara on evening flight out of nest

Tawny owl      Kodukakk      Strix aluco

By today all owl chicks have hatched.

A brief survey: on March 30 we could see the first egg in the nest. The next eggs Klaara laid on April 2 and 5.

When exactly one month had passed, or on April 30, a chick hatched from the first egg, the second on May 1, and the last on May 3.

Video  Fleur, LK forum

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 Estonian text posted 30.04.2018

Tawny owl        Kodukakk        Strix aluco

In the evening the owl chick could be heard but not seen yet.

Exactly one month passed to the hatching of the first tawny owl chick.

The next eggs  Klaara laid on April 2 and 5.

Video Jassi, LK forum

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Estonian text posted 26.04.2018

In the morning at 10 o’clock the female had laid an egg …

Starling        Kuldnokk        Sturnus vulgaris

The strength of passerines to lay eggs always feels amazing, how does the body of a small bird have this capacity?

When we crack open a hen’s egg in the course of cooking we notice a small white dot on the yolk – it is the germinal disc  from which the chick develops. The developing chick feeds on the yolk during the incubation.

Screencap from webcam IceAge, LK forum

Video recorded by  Barry Ruck
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Estonian text posted 24.04.2018

The second egg this morning…

Starling          Kuldnokk      Sturnus vulgaris

At about half past nine it seemed that the starling female was laying an egg and a quarter of an hour later we could see a second egg in the nest box.

The first egg came into the nest box in the evening of April 22, the second in the morning of April 24. Let us wait and see,  most commonly the female lays five to six eggs.

Video Ame, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 24.04.2018

When female eagle  Suvi rose for a moment from the nest in the morning a little before half past seven the eagle chick had hatched….

White-tailed eagle       Merikotkas      Haliaeëtus albicilla   

Thirtyseven days of incubation in the cold spring, sometimes even in a snowdrift.

The chick was hatched from the first egg laid on March 18. From the incubation period we can deduce that the egg that was crushed on April 5 was laid on March 21.