Latvian WtE nest webcamera Juras-erglis Durbe 2021

[Sonchik]

https://dabasdati.lv/lv/observation/79a ... oeql47kq5/

[Liz01]

November 2


Good Morning

ame, thanks for the playlist

YT - ame wrote: ​8:26:53 a big bird landed on a top branch on the left.
​8:33:44 an eagle flew away from the top over the meadow.


8:36 Mr L came home

8:38 he starts working

[Liz01]

8:40 Milda came home too


OMG, what happened?? Mr L was struggling with a branch... he is out now

OK the huge branch was laying on Mr L's back


he flew off with the branch

[Liz01]

..and landed on the right branch




then he fell

[Liz01]

another pic


... but he was able to turn and flew away. He landed on a oak behind the poop branch.


8:47 Mr L is back and healthy. It was him!

[Liz01]

8:54 Mr L is working. Milda is on the higher branch


8:55 Milda flew away


8:56 she returned with a spruce twig

[Liz01]

they worked a while


8:57 Mr L went to the left


hopped on the higher branch
9:01 he flew off

[Liz01]

9:02 he returned with empty hands


9:06 Mr L hopped on the left branch and back into the nest
then he went on the left branch again. And up to the higher branch-

9:07 he flew to the left


9:08 he came in from the right with a huge branch

[Liz01]

9:08 Milda went on the left higher branch.

he is working with his branch
9:10 is a complicated one




9:11 Milda flew off

[Liz01]

9:14 /9:15 he is still working with that branch

9:17 Milda returned she swept Mr L off the left branch


9:18 Milda is working with the branches. Mr L flew off


his tails markings

[Liz01]

9:23 she went on the left branch


then she hopped on the higher branch


9:27 M L came in from the left. His talons are empty


9:30 he is working with the branches

[Liz01]

8:32 Milda flew away


9:36 Mr L took off too

[Simoninna]

8:40 Milda came home too
OMG, what happened?? Mr L was struggling with a branch... he is out now

OK the huge branch was laying on Mr L's back

he flew off with the branch

I hope you don't mind, I captured this heartbreaking moment:

[Liz01]

I hope you don't mind, I captured this heartbreaking moment:...

thanks

[ame]

thank you for the reports!

we had an interesting visitor yesterday afternoon, an insect with yellow spots in the dark back section of the body. (actually there were a lot of insects at the nest yesterday, including a harvestman. the weather must have been warm.)
this was not a wasp. i thought it might be a hover fly and sent this picture to a friend of mine who is an expert in hover flies. i thought i would get an answer in return mail. it turned out not to be the case. this wasn't a trivial problem after all.
this is the best picture i got of this insect.


my friend told me that this was perhaps not even a local insect but travelled from who knows from how far (or blown by the southerly winds which have made the weather so warm).
he had sent the picture to another specialist. let's hope that it's possible to find out something more about this fellow.

this is the video of this insect.


here is the harvestman who walked by the lens at 9:45.

[ame]

https://dabasdati.lv/lv/observation/79a ... oeql47kq5/

thank you Sonchik!
this is the same link which Mārtiņš D posted in DDF on Oct 31 2021 at 20:08.

Vai mistiskais Durbes putns beidzot būs atminēts?

MSanmaelo video.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0-DPuV3A6E /youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEp9Yiza3C0 /youtube]

www.Dabasdati.lv Atbildi sniedza Ieva Mārdega.


Saite uz novērojumu zemāk.
https://dabasdati.lv/lv/observation/79a ... oeql47kq5/

https://forums.dabasdati.lv/viewtopic.p ... 82#p304782
the GT-translation of the lines which i marked blue in the post by Mārtiņš D are a little mysterious (again):
"Will the mystical Durbe bird finally be remembered?" (i think this should be 'is the mystery bird of Durbe finally identified?'

and:
"Link to the observation below. " (i think this means the answer, not an observation )

any way, Ieva Mārdega writes in DDF that our mystery bird is "krauklis" = the raven. i got the same answer on Sep 6th and 7th 2017 in xenocanto when i had posted the mystery call.
Cedric Mroczko and Herman van der Meer thought that the bird making the mystery calls is a raven (Corvus corax).
https://www.xeno-canto.org/forum/topic/20369

i was happy with this answer for a long time but still wanted to see a raven making these calls. this late summer and autumn i have, however, begun to suspect that perhaps it's a hooded crow after all. this is because i have never heard normal raven's voices in connections with these mystery calls. they don't seem to be present in the forest when someone calls like this. instead i have heard normal crow's voices together with the mystery calls, either a little before or a little after the mystery calls. this is what has made me suspicious.
i still want to see who calls like this.

[ame]

15:10 Mr L flew in with a stick (?)
15:11 Milda flew in. she went to the top branch. Mr L started to work. he still has a lot of work to do before he has tamed the very complicated stick which he brought in the morning at 9:08.

[ame]

15:24 Milda flew out.
15:25 she returned with a stick
15:26 she went to the top branch.
15:31 Mr L flew out.
15:32:20 Milda flew out.

that was a short work session.

[ame]

16:06 Mr L brought a fish!
he began to eat...
16:12 Milda flew in and took the rest of the fish just like that. it's hers!!
16:13 Mr L flew out.

[Liz01]

Milda is eating fish ?
I have to look back

ame, you saw it already