Bird migration

VIDEO: Migrant camera in Haeska finished

Submitted by Looduskalender EN on Wed, 24.10.2018 - 11:01

Text and illustrations Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
English translation Liis

 

Estonian text posted 23.10.2018

The migrant camera was in two different locations on the Haeska shore to start with this autumn. The first place was a promising patch of grass that however became submerged in water with the rising seawater level and storm winds so that a boat was needed to fetch the camera.

Teine, merekindlam paik, vaatega rannaniidule ja taamal olevale lahesopile pakkus vaatamiseks lisaks avarale maastikule õhus lendavaid arvukaid rändeparvi ning vahetult kaamera ees tegutsevaid rändlinde.

VIDEOS: Migrant camera ends transmission

Submitted by Looduskalender EN on Wed, 24.10.2018 - 10:02

Videos recorded by Fleur and Jassi, LK forum
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 21.10.2018

 

Flights to  find night location looked like this at sunset

 

Although the goose migration still continues the camera location regrettably did not hit the best place. As can be seen there is not much grass growth on the pastures despite the warm weather.

Soon Tiit Hunt will give the watchers a review of events and information on where the camera soon will be placed.

 

The migration paths of Estonian cranes

Submitted by Looduskalender EN on Sat, 13.10.2018 - 13:34

Text  Ivar Ojaste

Images  Aivar Leito

English translation Liis

 

Estonian text posted 08.10. 2018

Cranes  “Soits 1“and  “Soits 2“ left their home in  Elistvere on September 18th, and at the moment are staying in the Hortobagy National Park in East Hungary

Dear Friends,

During their autumn migration the 9 cranes, ringed and wearing satellite transmitters on the initiative of Aivar Leito who recently left us, have reached Germany, Poland and Hungary.

VIDEO: Barnacle geese reached Haeska

Submitted by Looduskalender EN on Wed, 10.10.2018 - 13:48

Text and illustrations  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee

English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 08.10.2018

 

Last week the barnacle geese reached Estonia and came into the Haeska camera view too – they were clearly a couple of weeks late or even more. The warm weather kept them in place in the north until the last moment and so they were not seen in September except a few small groups of local origin.

Yesterday’s radar observation in Esivere showed for the first time this large migration of various bird species from the Arctic that reached an order of hundreds of thousand individuals. A favourable slight northern wind set the birds moving.

VIDEO: Migrating wigeon flocks in camera view

Submitted by Looduskalender EN on Fri, 28.09.2018 - 11:23

Information from Tiit Huntwww.rmk.ee
English translation Liis
 

Estonian text posted 21.09.2018

On their migration wigeons (Anas penelope) have arrived in Haeska, on the green grass turf directly in front of the web camera. 

Today up to some twenty male birds were eating for hours and with unabated eagerness the salty grass that had risen out of the water   – wigeons often feed in coastal meadows, like geese.  

Soitsjärve cranes have left

Submitted by Looduskalender EN on Tue, 25.09.2018 - 12:21

Text and image Aivar Leito
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 19.09.2018

Cranes "Soits 1“ and "Soits 2“ have left

 

When driving to work yesterday morning the Soitsjärve crane family were still at the Elistvere roadside at 6.40 to greet me but at 8 o’clock they left from there on migration as the transmitter data from  “Soits 1“ and “Soits 2“ today show.

Migration of cranes with transmitters advances

Submitted by Looduskalender EN on Tue, 25.09.2018 - 11:40

Information from Aivar Leito
Photo Arne Ader
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 17.09.2018

Sookured

Cranes

 

Dear Crane Friends!

The migration of the cranes with transmitters  “Aivar“ and “Hauka 3“  who set out early has advanced again.

“Aivar“ again made a long migration leap and late in the evening on September 19 reached the Hortobágy  National Park in East Hungary, the same area where he made a long stop last autumn. But then he arrived there almost a month later, on October 10.  Evidently he will stay there for some time now too.

Webcam for bird migration in autumnal Haeska

Submitted by Looduskalender EN on Fri, 21.09.2018 - 09:45

Introduction written by Tiit Hunt, rmk.ee
Transmission provided by Teetormaja and EENet
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 16.09.2018

Last autumn and this spring we could observe the autumn and spring migration of birds on the Sassi peninsula through the web camera. For a change we will follow the migration this season that is still gathering momentum in another location - in the Haeska coastal meadow on the northern shore of Matsalu

About the migration of a crane with transmitter

Submitted by Looduskalender EN on Sat, 15.09.2018 - 13:10

Text and photos Aivar Leito
English translation Liis


Estonian text posted 10.09.2018

 

 

Hello again, dear crane friends!

In my crane tale on September 4th I predicted that „Hauka 3“ with a GPS probably would not migrate further from Latvia, but that was a mistake!

After a resting pause of four days he started the migration again on September 8th in the morning in a south-south-southeasterly direction and by midnight on the same day reached the northwestern corner of Belarus where he stayed on September 9th too. But I think that he will move from there in the near future a little more towards southeast to the Miory marsh area where many of our cranes with transmitters have stayed earlier too for longer periods on their autumn migration.

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