Latvian WtE nest webcamera Juras-erglis Durbe 2022

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19:53:53 a wasp danced in front of the camera.

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22:16:35 a big bumblebee! she was buzzing and hovering above the nest for a long time.

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playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjup ... NbSqgj-f6e

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June 28

good morning!

near sunrise very dark sky in the south.

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5:24 two cuckoos sang. cuckoo-cuCUC-cuckoo!! a song contest.


they were rather far and continued long.

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5:47 onward the two cuckoos went on singing even more eagerly than earlier. they were not near.


they went on till (at least) 5:58.

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6:31 a great spotted woodpecker female visited the poop branch. a female.

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6:32 a female great spotted woodpecker to the left branch and then to the top.


then another woodpecker to the top.


then flew by the camera: a young woodpecker.
the woodpeckers talked... and knocked.
6:33:23 the female to poop branch and away/out of sight.

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6:33:30 the young came to the left side of the camera.


then she flew to the trunk and went to the top.
6:33:56 she flew to the upper left branch. i think another woodpecker talked nearby...
6:35:11 the young woodpecker lower on the left branches. knocked...


i think another woodpecker knocked nearby... the female was still there, too.
6:36 the young went to the top.
6:36 - 6:38 one of them called on the top (?).

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no-one big has been here. not even the woodpeckers shuffled the hay on the nest itself.

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8:23:23 a dragonfly.
8:24 still/again.

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cranes have still called every now and then on the meadow, but not as frequently as yesterday afternoon.
an example:

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11:40 do i hear a rose finch?
i think so.
please show yourself... no.

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5:46 a little bird flew to the lower right branch and sang a verse: a chiffchaff.
....

I really like the little guy. He makes summer and happiness in the heart. It's a shame that it can only be heard for such a short time of the year.

Thank you @ame!

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it's raining and the sky in the east looks very dark!


17:56 there was some sounds of thunder.
18:08 again. the sky was dark in the east.
18:09 more.
18:47 rain.

thank you Polly!
we have here at our summer house also one chiffchaff who sings most of the day around the house tlink-tlink-tlink-tlank-tlink-tlink... tkl-tkl-tkl... tlink-tlink-tlink-tlank-tlink-tlink...
if i had the window open (but we can't have the windows open because of mosquitoes) i would have difficulty knowing if the singing comes from outside or from Latvia.

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20:14 a blackbird flew to the poop branch. he sang there...
20:17:49 flew away.




20:24 - 20:32 a song thrush sang nearby.

20:53 20:54 a wasp rustled at the microphone. there was a rainbow in the sky.

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​21:00 someone started banging near or at the microphone.
​21:03 a young woodpecker to the right branch. of course.
she looked around... knocked the right branch....
then flew to the camera and knocked "us. then she flew to thee poop branch.
then she went to the top.
21:07:55 she flew away.


mega2 reported this in the YT chat. thank you mega2!

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playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjup ... M6xq_VZUZT

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June 29

good morning!

at about 2 am there was a thunder storm with at least a few nice lightning flashes.
here's one. the delay from flash to the onset of rumbling was 17 s. sound travels in air (in about normal pressure) 1 km in about 3 s so this lightning struck at a distance of about 6 km.

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2:21 onward a longer storm with some good flashes.
this was the brightest. in fact the EMP of the flash has wiped away most of the data in the stream at this moment.


this was the closest strike, at about 3km.


the "eye" of the storm was south-west of the nest; the light was coming from over our right shoulders.