Latvian WtE nest webcamera Juras-erglis Durbe 2022

[ame]

4:51 Voldis flew out to the right. soon Milda flew after him.

[ame]

well who is here? Voldis? yes.
14:15 he flew in.


he worked a little...

[ame]

14:40 he was half-sitting on the nest and digging the nest...

[ame]

14:47 he is sleeping standing up...

[ame]

15:21 Milda came home and woke Voldis up. he began to sing to Milda! still!
Milda didn't take him seriously.

[ame]

15:24 some stick work...

[ame]

both are preening...
they may stay here like this for a looooong time.

[ame]

15:56 Milda was preening her back and her tail. Voldis tried to nibble her feathers. i think he still had something on his mind...
Milda climbed back down lower to the nest bowl.
15:57:about 00 she was catching flies?

[ame]

15:59 Milda flew out. Voldis followed her.

[ame]

it's raining. this will make plants grow nicely (if this will go on for a few hours). it has been so dry.

[ame]

21:20:10 a pied flycatcher male to the upper left branch.
21:21:35 he came back and sat on the front left for quite a while.
21:25:40 a pied flycatcher male to the top branch. then to the nest. a handsome male.


21:33:32 the pied flycatcher male flew by the camera.

[ame]

21:35:15 the pied flycatcher male again.
21:36:20 again.


21:41:50 the pied flycatcher again.

[ame]

tree frogs are singing with blackbirds, song thrushes and other birds.

23:59:59 our lodger came home.


playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjup ... 8-Du1uDdYX

[ame]

May 21

good morning!

i started listening from 2:47 and i didn't hear our lodger leaving.
i didn't hear any eagle's calls either. apparently they spent their night somewhere far, outside our hearing range. they left so early yesterday afternoon (at 16:00) that they had time to fly far enough. if they visit later, in the evening, they also spend the night near the nest. then they call a morning song near the nest when they wake up and start their day.

it seems that no-one has visited the nest since yesterday evening. the pied flycatcher was the last visitor.

[ame]

6:21 a wood pigeon flew by the nest. then another wood pigeon flew over the meadow from right to left.


wood pigeons are flying around and singing all the time but usually they are too far to see them properly. there have also not been territorial fights nearby like a year ago when the spruce on the right was on the border of two territories.

[ame]

8:00 two blackbirds visited.


it's raining again, very gently.

[ame]

11:36 - 11:37 little bird visited.
thank žubīte ST (in YT chat)!

this was a female chaffinch. she collected hay from the nest.

[ame]

​12:35 Voldis to the top. then to the nest.


... ​hahaa! this is not Voldis. a juvenile!
is it a girl? i think it's a girl, 4 CY (or 5 CY) with a dark spot on the nose.


jumping up and down and tearing the hay on the nest. the back is still very spotty.

[ame]

12:39 she pulled up a stick from under the hay.


then she saw the camera and out she flew!

[ame]

12:48 suddenly a very loud choir of tree frogs for about a minute.
before that a cuckoo called, too.