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Enormous male lynx tracks on the snow. The lynxes have clearly started to assert their territorial claims. So soon we will hear, from the depths of the forest, the lovesick yowling of the big cat - urra-vurra-vää.

 

The four weather signs of the week:

 

Peep Männil says however, on hearing about the hunters’ lynx story, that the wooing period of lynxes is still some time away – during earlier years it has started around March 5^th. At least in Soomaa the family groups are said to keep together still on their winter walks. But there are other, quite true hunter’s tales, in Läänemaa a boar sow was seen with little striped piglets.

 

 

The warmth of the sun sends drips down the icicles. It is the time for really long icicles, the warm sun and frosty air stretch these ice carrots to extraordinary lengths. Outside my window there is a row of half-metre-long icicles. The sun already nibbles on the snow, little by little: the young apple trees in the garden show this, on the sunny side there is a hole in the snow at the trunk. At the same time the snow that has drifted down is light as feathers and flies away everywhere with the slightest breath of wind. The ice cover on the pond sags too more and more, the edges sticking to the shore are already a metre higher than the middle. And the forest rivulets ripple joyously, they seem not to become ice-covered at all this year. The ice on Lake Peipsi cracks and creaks, rifts running along the ice are clearly to be seen.