Estonian Eagle Owl Nest 2022, 2023

Estonian Eagle-Owl Nest

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31.03.2023

02:16 the female gets up and leaves the nest. Since the time it got dark, I have not heard any calls from the male as yet.
02:34 the female arrives back at the nest quietly and settles back on the eggs. While she does so, the male can be heard, obviously very far away. (She has been away quite a long time, has she been waiting for him, or has she hunted a bite for herself?)
02:37 the male is somewhere nearby now and keeps hooting. The female is listening and "chock-ing".
02:40 the male's hooting is becoming fainter now (is he looking for her in the wrong places?)

03:09 One eye watching and one eye dozing :sleeping:
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04:20 nothing further happened, all quiet, even the forest.

And I sign off
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“Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.” (G. Kowalski) Caveat: Apart from this remarkable sentence I do not agree with his philosophies.
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Good Morning :hi:

Askja thanks for reporting :2thumbsup:

4:50 Male is hooting, female flew out
5:04 she returns and covers the eggs

5:27 she is rolling the eggs
5:51 egg rolling
6:19 egg rolling
6:56 she is rolling the eggs. A crow is calling nearby
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8:10 she is sleeping
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8:11 the camera changed to daylight
8:13 a blackbird landed on the right
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8:38 she is :sleeping:
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8:49 she awoke and began to preen

8:52 she is looking around
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8:53 egg rolling, then she turns with face to the right
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8:59 preening
9:00 she is looking to the right quite a while, stands up, is rolling the eggs and covers them again
9:14 preening
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9:15 egg rolling, she turns ans now sitting with face to the wooden wall
10:19 she stands up is preening her belly feathers
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then she turns again, is rolling her eggs and continues incubating
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10:47 she is rolling the eggs
11:34 preening
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12:09 :sleeping:
12:11 again preening
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you can see a small piece of her tongue :innocent:
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what a beauty she is. :innocent:
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12:17 egg rolling

12:31 preening and egg rolling
three eggs in a row :innocent:
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13:01 egg rolling and preening
done!
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13:43 male starts hooting
13:14 is hooting. she is sleeping

she's thinking about a fourth egg :mrgreen:
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and fell asleep ..
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16:06 nothing happened till now.
Now they are talking. he was hooting a few times & she replied
It sounds like he is far away
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16:09 he is still hooting
She opened one eye :laugh:
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16:11 back to sleep

16:30 she is preening herself
egg rolling
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16:54
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16:55 another egg rolling
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17:13 they are talking
female is hooting
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It is snowing slightly
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another time stamp for female call
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17:16 a crow is calling near.
17:25 strong guts of wind
17:29 she stands up and is rolling the eggs

i's' snowing
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17:52 female says huhuu
17:55 egg rolling
17:57 crow is screaming near
17:59 the crow is still screaming
she is looking to the crow.. she seems hungry :whistling:
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18:41 Male starts hooting she answers and makes noises
18:45 he is still hooting. He sounds far away

Is he coming closer?
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18:47 she is making again this noises
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18:48 I hope he will bring food for her.. he is still hooting
she is still waiting for dinner
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19:35 female flew out of the house :D
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three beautiful eggs are visible
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19:39 she came home

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:hi: All!
It's a rather unpleasant night here at the owls' nest, windy with strong gusts and snow/sleet/rain.

20:11 the male is calling in a distance
20:18 he is somewhere near now
20:19 IR light switches on
20:20 the female turns her head looking out for he male but he has stopped calling now.

20:58 Preening: she's able to almost reach the place below her beak :shock:
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22:42 the male's calls approaching from distance
22:43 the female gets up and flies off. Both can be heard. I can see three eggs. :wink:
22:55 she comes back, rolls her eggs and settles down again.

From ca. 23:00 on the weather gets from bad to worse. It seems to be foggy, or the camera casing is awash with water, so that the image gets blurry; later the wind gets still stronger. :slap:

23:32 loud cracking and snapping branches alert the female on the nest.

23:32
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01.04.2023

00:53 the female sees/hears something and gets up and away - oh girl, in that terrible snow storm!
00:57 she returns to the nest, stands for a while on the side of the box and looks around searchingly. Then she snuggles down in the nest again (probably still hungry).
01:10ff the picture is becoming so blurry now that hardly anything can be seen... :sad: (I hope the nest box survives the storm in one piece).
01:28 I think I hear the male calling through the storm noise
02:39-41 IF she did lay an egg tonight, this may have been a likely time. She remained for almost three minutes in that shoulders-up-tail-down position before looking down and rolling eggs. Or she might have just been preening her chest... there is no meaningful screenshot possible - too blurry. :puzzled:
04:13 visibility had improved for an hour or so but now it's gone again. I have not seen or heard the male again

00:53 going out into the storm
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01:59 I strongly believe visibility is less than 8 meters... :nod:
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I have been pondering the question, whether birds of prey have chances at all of finding food in such blizzard or storm... not only is it no fun for the predator to roam about and search, but also the prey animals may not stick their noses out of their burrows, or stay otherwise hidden. And tonight it has been going on for many hours.

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Good morning all :hi:

weather forecast:
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The sky is gradually clearing up from northwest. Snow in central and eastern part of Estonia, locally drifting snow, in southern part also sleet and rain, locally fog. In the afternoon precipitation gradually reducing, in eastern part in the evening. On islands and northwestern part of mainland the sky will become more clear. Northeast, north wind 4-9, in gusts 13, on coast 7-12, in gusts up to 17 m/s. Air temperature -1..+4°C
https://www.ilmateenistus.ee/ilm/progno ... s/?lang=en

5:02
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5:16
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what a horrible weather. The lens is blurry :slap:
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6:41 she is rolling the eggs

The stream is stable :thumbs:
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I hope they are able to find some food. I have read that at such times the birds of prey go hungry
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the camera zoomed out! thank you :D
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