Uhu Webcam (Germany, Eifel) 2020

[romy]

[Lubaska]

my picture for tonight almost the same

they are so cute!


Oh, mice, where are you? when will you come? we are ready and waiting for you!

[romy]

Lotte and the crow

Lotte had brought a buzzard that night. When I looked in the night, I saw a lot of feathers on the ledge and two full owlets

[Bea]

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19. May

00:36
Lotte is coming in loudless, with food in her talons - a bird of prey - Buzzard?
Different to other occasions the bird still had its head on, so maybe she hunted it herself?
Lotte removed the head on the ledge and the head rolled down on the balcony

[Bea]

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00:46
Feeding and zoom on prey
Younger owlet was the first to be fed, older owlet stayed in observation

[Bea]

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01:36
Lotte walked away, owlets still working on the prey

[Bea]

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04:17
I noticed a feather suddenly being on the wall and one can see a swooshing wing that whirled up some feathers, it could have been a silent delivery or an owlet making wing exercises close by
With sound only it is difficult to interpret and cam was not moved. I suppose even cam operators have to sleep at some time

[Bea]

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05:25
Lotte is coming home with a mouse, older owlet can get it.
She walks out to the ledge to continue feeding on the leftovers of the Buzzard, younger owlet joins her

[Bea]

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05:56
A while after Lotte had finished eating/feeding on the ledge, she walked to the nest bowl and continued with a wing at the nest bowl.
Younger owlet follows her

[Bea]

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06:15
Not much left from the wing, but Lotte stores it in the upper larder



06:34
Lotte continued eating from the wing/leftovers of the Buzzard on the ledge

[Bea]

Lotte and the crow

08:02
Something to crow about

[Mamicja]

Food coma in the morning


A few minutes before Lotte brought the bird, I heard strange sounds. Were these the sounds of hunting?

[Bea]

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14:09
Lotte is coming home ...



... but she did not stay long and went out to the ledge again at 14:15

[Bea]

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14:34
Lotte was not far out, she came back and fetched leftovers of the Buzzard from the upper larder



Older owlet continues self-feeding for quite a while

[Bea]

A few minutes before Lotte brought the bird, I heard strange sounds. Were these the sounds of hunting?
https://youtu.be/xeufmFA0Jvg

I don´t think that Eagle Owls make sounds when they are hunting, they would betray themselves with calling.
And it neither sounds like call of a Buzzard ...

For me it sounds more like a call of a Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea, Graureiher), they also call in the night and even fly in night time:
https://www.deutsche-vogelstimmen.de/graureiher/

Perhaps a Grey Heron felt disturbed by Lotte somewhere close?

Or was it one of Lotte´s usual hoarse calls? Sounding a bit different with a distance?

[Bea]

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20. May

02:04
Leo with a quick mouse delivery, older owlet was out on the ledge and got it








My recordings froze (once more) at 02:57 and I started again only around 7 o´clock, so no more night reports today ....

[Bea]

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12:19
Butterfly for a visit, but owlets sleep







Butterfly looks like a Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) - Kleiner Fuchs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_tortoiseshell
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiner_Fuchs


20:29
Looking cute

[Bea]

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21. May

Not much to report about last night ...

01:04
A single shot - owlet/s stayed quite cool


A bit later cam operator panned over the valley, but I think there was 'nothing' to remark ...

[Bea]

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No visible sign of Lotte or Leo during the whole night

Owlets spent the night more or less the whole time on this spot, older owlet made one or another short walk out of cam view


05:45
Lotte returns to the owlets, but I think she had no food with her and stayed for about 5 minutes

[Bea]

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New diary entry from Stefan Brücher

http://uhu.webcam.pixtura.de/beringungs ... n-ordnung/