Buzzard Cam 2016 ~ Mari and Mihkel

[Maggy]

10:36 doesn't look like Small is gonna get anything
get it
9:38 but Small is hoping to get something

9:39 Big starts dealing with a pellet

and Small takes a chance to get the prey

[Maggy]

9:39 but Big doesn't let Small to steal the prey

9:40 Big is dealing with a toad, Small keeps trying to get it

[Maggy]

9:41 Big keeps protecting his prey

9:42 Small doesb't lose the hope

9:43 let me come from this side

[Maggy]

9:44 the toad is not that easy to eat and Small is always trying to get it



9:46 Big is eating, Small looks small next to him

[Maggy]

9:50 Small leaves under the cam, Big keeps eating
9:53 Small is back, Big is still dealing with the toad
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9:56 Small is still waiting for his chance
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9:58 Small is still thinking how to get some food (looks so small next to Big now)

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9:59 Small is trying to get the rest of the toad,

but Big is stronger and still hungry, so is not gonna let it happen

Small leaves for the branch
today Big is lucky and Small is unlucky

[Maggy]

10:00 Big is finishing the toad, Small is on the branch
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10:02 Big is having a break

10:03 and moves the rest of the toad
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10:05 finishing eating

10:06 Small jumps on the left branch behind the tree
Big is about to jump on the left branch

10:08 Small jumps from the branch to the left

[Taube]

goog morning

I think off as it gets long and they fly

[Hagnat]

I think off as it gets long and they fly

They do already fly, but usually not very far from the nest and (all?) the food is still brought on the nest.
They left the nest more or less on June 26/27, 45/46 and 42/43 days old. That is a normal age to fledge.
I think that the first real flight we saw(!) was on June 29.

[Taube]

oh,, thank you that's wonderful

now one is in the nest

[Maggy]

11:29 Small is back

11:31 and leaves

[Taube]

Yes I see it

[Hagnat]

There is very little visible activity today and we are half blinded by the missing sound.

The only deliveries on the nest today:

She is loosing one of her wing feathers.

[Hagnat]

21:11 Little on came. First in the birch, then on the nest en then out of sight on the branch on the left. He soon flew away again.

Short visit to the nest

[Taube]

now the nest is empty again

[Hagnat]

July 2

04:25 A juvenile Robin was on the nest for some minutes.
At 05:05 a frog was delivered but there was nobody to take it over, so after waiting for three minutes she left with the frog.
Apart from the flies, that was all the movement so far this morning.






08:33 A Marsh tit/Willow tit on the nest.

[Taube]

good Morning

I think the 2 no longer come so often into the nest, sade

[Hagnat]

12:18 A Siskin on he nest. There were several around.

[Hagnat]

June 13.
A not often seen situation: the whole family together for some seconds.
I suppose that the incoming bird is the male, with a vole.
Mother brought a vole a minute ago but she is feeding a big bird delivered thirty-five minutes earlier.

[Janne+Ais]

June 13.
A not often seen situation: the whole family together for some seconds...

What a wonderful farewell gift!
Thank you!

[Hagnat]

To me perhaps the most memorable episode of this season:
On June 11 it rained heavy all day. In the morning mother left the nest a couple of short times to hunt but with no success. That day no food was brought to the nest at all.
The previous day had been already very poor with only three voles and a rat. The last vole came as early as 13:08 and was eaten by one young only.
The next day (12th) started wet and the young had to wait many hours for food. We saw a couple of heavy fightings between the young, even over a pellet. In a fight for the first delivery the youngest chick was nearly killed. The first food came as late as 16:30 but after that first one came a long stream of 19 deliveries, mainly of earthworms.
The most lucky young had been over 51 hours without food, the other even over 56 hours.