Latvian WtE nest webcamera Juras-erglis Durbe 2023

[ame]

8:49 a crash?
8:56 a crash
8:57 more and louder crashes!

[ame]

9:18 - 9:21 a great tit sang nearby (invisible).
9:28 again a crash!


yesterday it came to my mind that there had been no crashes for a few days. now there are again.

[Liz01]

9:30 /9:40 eagle is calling? it sounds a bit strange
9:50 someone is flying around out of sight

9:57:55 Voldis is calling

[ame]

9:38 noise?
9:39 the calls had a lot of echo, they came from far. maybe a dog?
9:42 more crashes.


9:48 crashes.
9:49 more. (i didn't hear wings here).
9:57:55 a black woodpecker called.
10:00:20 a crash again.
10:07:59 a crash again.
10:14:37 again! this is odd and funny.


i think i heard a fake eagle calling at some point but now i don't remember when.
i'll check later if i can find it.
i found it! it was after Milda flew out. the jay was a bit farther this time.
viewtopic.php?p=886897#p886897

[Liz01]

interesting sky


ame, i hear that too. But I can't pinpoint what the noise might be.

[ame]

10:38:10 a fake eagle's voices... this is not very near. she wasn't near earlier in the morning either.

[ame]

10:56 banging... it sounded like gunshots. or fireworks (in sunshine??).
10:57:48 crash!
some more bangs after that.
11:01 some more bands.
11:17 again more.

[ame]

11:27:15 a crash.
11:42:25 again.
11:43 a raven called and flew to the top. she talked there klop - klop - klop.
11:44:20 the raven flew away.


12:07:57 a big crash!
it sounds like a big branch breaking or a tree falling. what makes these sounds? it's perfectly calm so the wind can't make trees break.

[ame]

12:30 a nuthatch was talking very near.
12:32 the nuthatch came up!
then she went upstairs and to the top.

[ame]

13:02:35 a crash!
13:03:25 again!
13:16:23 more crashes.
13:16:55 a big crash!
and more.

[ame]

13:35 Voldis flew from the right with a green spruce twig. he worked a while and dug the hay. then he lay on the nest. ... and turned and lay down again. then he got up and started looking around...

[Polly]

12:07:57 a big crash!
it sounds like a big branch breaking or a tree falling. what makes these sounds? it's perfectly calm so the wind can't make trees break.
https://youtu.be/UaIphyw5uvc

Hello @ame, @all!

It can be heard a chainsaw away.
Appear to be lumberjacks.

[ame]

hello Polly!
there is a lumberjack with a chainsaw and sometimes we can hear a crash after the saw has been brrr'ing for a while. many of these crashes have, however, happened without a chainsaw's brrr before the crash. the chainsaw sounds also seems to come from a longer distance than the crashing sounds. they seem to happen out of the blue. they are mysterious sounds.
maybe i should have made longer clips of the sounds with longer time before the crash...?
i made a new clip. here the first crashes have no chainsaw sounds before them. in the second part there are both sounds in turns. it's difficult to say if they are linked.


13:48 Voldis worked a little, he dug the hay...
14:00 Voldis dug the hay and sat on the rim. then worked more...

[ame]

14:19 Voldis lay down. organized nest material. ... and got up. lay down, arranged more... got up and arranged more. then he started looking around....

[ame]

14:29 Voldis flew away.

[ame]

14:32 Voldis brought a stick. he worked for a while and then lay down on the nest.
14:35 he got up to dig the nest. he lay down. and turned. and sat on the rim.

[Liz01]

....
12:07:57 a big crash!
it sounds like a big branch breaking or a tree falling. what makes these sounds? it's perfectly calm so the wind can't make trees break.

When trees are damaged due to drought ect.. they can suddenly lose branches. That is normal. Coniferous trees in particular are currently very susceptible to this event. I almost got hit by one of these recently. The branch only grazed me, so I only had a bleeding wound. I am very careful in my forest excursions. But I can't see clairvoyant.

EDIT:
ame, sorry for the late response to your post from yesterday. Goshawk really only differs in size. the female is considerably larger. Otherwise there is the juvenile plumage, then the plumage in the 2nd year of life, which is still brownish and has coarsely banded chest and belly feathers. As an adult, it has blue-grey plumage and finely banded chest and belly feathers. (my book "Der Kosmos Vogelführer))

[Liz01]

14:43 Milda? flew to the top

[ame]

14:43:11 Milda landed on the top.


thank you Liz! i know so little about birds of prey.

[ame]

14:47 Voldis jumped to the right branch.