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The flying skills of the young eagle have improved significantly quite as climbing in tree branches. But in a weather with storm winds it is surely more secure in the nest than keeping balance in the wind gusts in the perching tree, and less tiring too. Time and progress of the white-tailed eagles seem to run nicely.

In t their absence curious strangers visit the nest…

 

 

 In fact it is the neighbour who has drummed nearby since early spring. An adult: a male with all his characteristics and the red neck patch seen easily and at short distance.

 

In April the woodpecker pair made a nest, builders both adults. For skilled woodcutters this took 2-3 weeks. Nest year this nest will noit be used again (the greater spotted woodpecker is the most important of those who care for nests for other species with hidden nesting). To start with a flight opening is cut out in an easterly-southerly direction, with a diameter of 5 centiometres or a little more. The depth of the nest hollow is about 30 centrimetres and it is located between a height of 2 and 8 metres in the tree. Both adults defend the territory against intruders.

 

Some wood shavings are left at the bottom of the nest, where the female laid 5-7 eggs in early May. Both adults incubate, for about half a month. The chicks are naked and blind at hatching but cared for by the adults they exit from the nest already after 3 weeks (the adults make up to 300 flights to the nest per day with food, or otherwise expressed with intervals of a few minutes). The woodpecker chicks are quite loud-voiced at food begging, thus an observant wathcher can easily discover a woodpecker nest at the end of May and early June.

 

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