Latvian Osprey nest 2019-2023

[Polly]

Most likely they are nesting in the nearby.

I don't think so, Birdfriend.
I started listening to their calls last year. Unfortunately, this camera launches late in the season so we can't hear the commercial and mating time. Still, every now and then we would hear calls ... the Kikiki in moments when they are defending their nest or territory. Or calls for the partner. Their calls can be heard several hundred meters away. But I never heard a goshawk.
Despite the restless acoustics of this camera - you can hear a hawk call.
And now at this time the hawklets would be heard.

I think this goshawk is hunting outside of his turf. We can't know if it's always the same ... year after year. If so, he remembers. Yes of course.
I don't feel like there are too many goshawks around here. We'd hear ... see them more often. Or?
Unfortunately, this nest is now known and hawklets learn from their parents where to find food. So it doesn't have to be many. If the camera ran over winter, we would know more whether it is a hawk area here.

Everything is useless. There are no blocking tapes. And as tragic as it is - it's good.

I'm tense but not without hope.

[Abigyl]

19:09 Kid is jumping in front if Mom: "Look at me! I'm strong and big and I'm able to help you in protecting our home, you'll see"

We need a miracle

[balistar]

It happened again.......

20:26 goshawk took 4H1 - Poga




sorry, i can't report more of it, i'm devastated
i'm so sorry for Teo and Vita and all their poor chicks, they have lost to the goshawk

please, Teo and Vita, change the nest, build one on another, a safer place

[sova]

.. it is almost unbearable ... even now, I prefer not to write what I think ...
Poor chicks, poor Teo and Vita, all caring for nothing...

[Birdfriend]

It happened again.......

20:26 goshawk took 4H1 - Poga
sorry, i can't report more of it, i'm devastated
i'm so sorry for Teo and Vita and all their poor chicks, they have lost to the goshawk

please, Teo and Vita, change the nest, build one on another, a safer place

It is so cruel, I feared it. So many tragedies in the nests. At the beginning from season I posted, that I want not much follow this nest after the disaster from last year.
It breaks my heart, they are such caring and great parents and again an unsuccessful season. Poor Vita, she developed such good mother skills and poor Teo. When he raised his last chicks and it was lucky to fledge?

I also really hope that they abandoned this unlucky nest.

[balistar]

.....So many tragedies in the nests.
.....When he raised his last chicks and it was lucky to fledge?

...

Yes, Birdfriend, this season is very hard and sad, in almost every nest i'm watching.
I don't know exactly, i think it was 2017 or even earlier, when the last chicks of Teo were lucky to fledge.
It's so so sad

[balistar]

.. it is almost unbearable ... even now, I prefer not to write what I think ...
Poor chicks, poor Teo and Vita, all caring for nothing...

Sova, i pray for Miina's and Marko's chicks..... may they be the lucky ones this season.

[Birdfriend]

Yes, Birdfriend, this season is very hard and sad, in almost every nest i'm watching.
I don't know exactly, i think it was 2017 or even earlier, when the last chicks of Teo were lucky to fledge.
It's so so sad

Thank you, balistar. So this poor guy made this long journey the last five years with all the dangers and then... Not more long and both sweet chicks would be able to fly.

[Birdfriend]

Sova, i pray for Miina's and Marko's chicks..... may they be the lucky ones this season.

Me too, I take a look every day in the posts, last season I watched intensely- and then. I can't bear it.

[asteria]

Thank you, balistar. So this poor guy made this long journey the last five years with all the dangers and then... Not more long and both sweet chicks would be able to fly.

Unless he realizes that he should find another nesting place.

So far the goshawk outplayed the osprey couple... and people.

[handbyl]

Well, if you must favour nests exposed on tree tops I guess you evolved to feed goshawks as much as anything else :-(

[balistar]

The goshawk caught Vita by surprise, he was clever, he used a deceitful tactic.
He was under the nest and deceived her. She heard him - we heard the rustling near the microphone several times - Vita was very attentive, she knew he is here, looked down a few times, but couldn't see him. Vita flew up to chase him away, but in the wrong direction, and he thrust up to the nest from the back.

20:25


20:26


see the talons of the goshawk below on the right corner (orange arrow)

[balistar]

20:26 everything happened in a second

[balistar]

20:26 Vita turned in flight, flies back to defend her chick


Vita shouts and must watch as the goshawk takes Poga with him

[balistar]

20:26




brave Vita goes after him - but there is no chance to save her chick


noises from brushing against branches and twigs, nothing to see,
shortly afterwards Vita is heard landing on the cam stand and calling,
the calling is different than usual, it sounds heartbreaking, sometimes hoarse, almost choked,
it must be terrible for her, she lost every chick since she was a first time mom.

20:27 silence, oppressive silence

[Sirage]

So sad So many lost chicks this year. As I said 10th July "Goshawk remembers, it's surely coming back."

[Liz01]

July 12

Good Morning!

balistar, thank you for reporting the very sad event!


Vita was on the cam stand the whole night.
5:20 She jumped into the nest and is calling - she flew off and returned
5:21 she is still calling for Teo
Teo is missing!

15:56 yesterday Teo was feeding his little one
19:40 he brought a fish .... flew of and then stress for Vita.

[asteria]

So sad So many lost chicks this year. As I said 10th July "Goshawk remembers, it's surely coming back."

The goshawk remembers, the ospreys don't remember and people "do not forget anything and did not learn anything". It is obvious that in 2022 there will be the same result in this nest.

Yesterday somebody in youtube chat even wrote that the goshawk was deliberately sent by people who specially use it for hunting.

[Liz01]

20:19:15 after feeding her little one, she flew off
20:20 Alarm call by Vita - she? landed on the cam stand
20:20 Vita cashed the goshawk away!
20:21 she landed on the cam stand- before she was fling under the nest tree- there the goshawk was
20:22 she called alarm again and cam down into the nest
she was fighting for the little one for a few minutes!!! What a female

[Liz01]

Usually the Goshawk does not hunt in the treetops. They hunt in the forest. They are well equipped for this. they can hunt among the trees with incredible speed and skill.
They only hunt in that high when there is not enough food left in the forest. We all know that the number of forest birds has decreased incredibly! There is less and less food for all birds!