Image from camera, video and summary  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee

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Estonian text posted 28.08.2018

The badger family is doing well as before, two cubs are alive and in good health and parasites do not seem to harass them overmuch. Longer tours out of the badger castle seem to have ended for this year.

Last week the camera had recorded badger activities almost every evening and night and even during some morning hours. We have not seen the old male badger in his home burrow for some time but if he is well and healthy he will return home in due time.

Screenshot from webcam  IceAge, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 27.06.2018

A really handsome greater spotted eagle juvenile that will be three months old on September 1st

 

 

Greater spotted eagle       Suur-konnakotkas         Aquila clanga or Clanga clanga

 

Video recorded by   Birdfriend, LK forum

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Estonian text posted 26.08.2018

Young osprey Jaak arrived in the nest without the plastic leg ring that had been tangled in the claws…

Osprey         Kalakotkas        Pandion haliaetus

Well done, if something disturbs, it has to be gotten rid of.

This was our only hope, and so it happened. The video shows that the use of claws has not been forgotten. Good that we got to know about it through the camera, otherwise it would have remained to bother both the watchers and the eagle-men.

Text and photos  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee

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Estonian text posted 23.08

Now that the summer heat is giving over to more timely early autumn  winds and rain showers it is the best time to go out and pick these berries ripened to blackish-blue in the sun on field and hiking path verges.

The dewberry  (Rubus caesius) looks like a black or dark blue berry similar to a raspberry, with a greyish waxy coat, but it is not really a berry – the fruits of the dewberry, cloudberry as well as raspberry are aggregate drupes where each individual little grain or drupelet contains a small stone similar to that in a cherry or plum.