New Cameras
Bad weather - fewer cameras ...
Text and photos: Urmas Sellis
Translation: Liis
There hasn’t been anything much to see in the lesser spotted eagle and the black stork cameras for some time now but we have kept them working to find out how they behave in poor light conditions, and how they hold up in the humidity that creeps in everywhere. On Friday however we went out with Joosep and took both camera systems down.
The energy feed systems running on solar energy still worked well in both cameras, but the “brains” of the system were somewhat damaged by the damp.
In the spotted eagle woods we tried to guess where Spot might have been when local man Mihkel Juhkam found him on the ground, but we couldn’t be sure of the place. Spot himself probably stays in Nigula for the winter. Although he does fly, he is not quite well yet and obviously it is too late to set him free in nature now.
It is autumn in all ways in the nest forest, and it was nearly without deer flies this time
Spot's nest forest.
Ants had invaded the black stork camera system, and built themselves a nest in this pleasantly warm and sheltered place ... This may certainly have disturbed some processes in the system, but the camera image was watchable all the same. The nest is all in order, and ready to welcome nesters in the new season:
Padis’s nest after the weeding action.
As Padis made so little use of his nest, other beings took the chance to establish themselves – nettles grew until the gardener’s visit, and some mushrooms remained to grow on in this well-fertilised ground:
This mushroom growing in the nest hasn't been identified, but may well have been edible!
