Page 50 of 56

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 21st, 2017, 9:43 am
by Hagnat
The previous one was not too heavy and Bitterns can handle fishes much heavier than this chick.

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 21st, 2017, 6:29 pm
by Liz01
18:24:32 She tries to remove the chick


18:07 a attempt
Image
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ93Sto ... e=youtu.be

Video comes soon. Pictures hopefully by Hagnat :bow:

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 21st, 2017, 6:47 pm
by Hagnat
She failed again and did a lot of nest building.

Image

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 21st, 2017, 8:11 pm
by Hagnat
Heavy meal
Image

Disturbed by a humble Reed warbler
Image

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 21st, 2017, 8:22 pm
by Hagnat
Another failed attempt to remove the dead chick.
Image

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 21st, 2017, 8:47 pm
by Marfo
I think the time is wrong on your last picture. It is now 20:46.

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 21st, 2017, 8:52 pm
by Hagnat
Marfo wrote:I think the time is wrong on your last picture. It is now 20:46.
Thank you. I probably made a double correction.

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 21st, 2017, 9:05 pm
by Marfo
at 20:43 she once more tries to remove the dead chick but she doesn't succeed. She leaves.

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 22nd, 2017, 7:47 am
by Hagnat
May 22

She managed to get one of the legs free.
Image

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 22nd, 2017, 9:13 am
by Marfo
at 8:58 she again struggles with the dead chick. She lifts it in various ways, from the head or the foot and from the middle. But no. she leaves again around 9:03.

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 22nd, 2017, 9:50 am
by Hagnat
Strange to see that she seems pretty intelligent with the puzzle of collecting and placing nesting material, but that she is unable to figure out how to untangle this dead chick.

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 22nd, 2017, 3:47 pm
by Liz01
15:32 she mad it :bow: :laugh:

Female took the dead chick and brought it to the left and has sunk it in the pond

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 22nd, 2017, 3:49 pm
by Hagnat
and I have missed it :-)

In the review I saw that it took her ages to take it away because underway it got stuck in the reeds several times. She had a long fight with it just in view on the left side of the screen. At 15:45 she gave up and came back to the nest.

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 22nd, 2017, 10:50 pm
by Hagnat
Now (~22:45) a very close singing Savi's warbler Locustella luscinioides

Here a sample http://picosong.com/MTzH

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 23rd, 2017, 9:11 am
by Hagnat
May 23

This morning a Sedge warbler is often singing very close to the cam and Reed warblers not far away.

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 23rd, 2017, 6:09 pm
by Hagnat
Alert
Image

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 23rd, 2017, 10:11 pm
by Marfo
22:06 Do I hear a nightjar? A long constant churring. It is very loud. I thought this bird lived mostly in a different habitat. Or is it something else?

The reeds are growing, leaves are coming out. I see the chicks' legs are the same shade of green.

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 23rd, 2017, 11:24 pm
by Hagnat
Marfo wrote:22:06 Do I hear a nightjar? A long constant churring. It is very loud...
No, Savi's warbler (Locustella luscinioides) (Snor in Dutch, Rohrschwirl in German.).

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2017

Posted: May 24th, 2017, 8:40 am
by Hagnat
May 24

The adventurer
Image

Re: Latvian Bittern Camera 2015 and 2016

Posted: May 24th, 2017, 9:30 am
by Marfo
Marfo wrote:22:06 Do I hear a nightjar? A long constant churring. It is very loud...
Hagnat wrote:No, Savi's warbler (Locustella luscinioides) (Snor in Dutch, Rohrschwirl in German.).
O, of course! I am not very familiar with reed birds. I have heard this one only once or twice on youtube. I didn't know it could sing long and continuously without stopping. And loud.

By the way, I've heard several interesting bird sounds on this cam I've never heard before. But they are difficult to describe. One of them sounds like someone is blowing in a bottle but the tone is going up and is wavering.
Does this description make sense?