Goshawk nest in Riga 2023

[Emi7]

Hello Polly

It is difficult to determine the causes, we only know what we have seen and heard but nothing can be proven. We are one of the people who follow this camera the most and are listening for a long time.

There are couples that stop breeding for a couple of years and return later without anything notable for them to do so. The lack of dams may be the cause, since they often breed very well with more chicks flown that year and the land seems as if it had recovered from dams.

About fifteen days ago I was in a territory that did not breed due to cutting last year and this year it has an active nest about twenty meters from the previous one. It has little availability of pine trees and it continues in its small patch of 4-5 hectares.
Returning to the H's, it may be good for them to rest for a year and they will resume it with force next year, although almost a whole year has to pass.

In the morning from 6:35 to 8:23 nothing was heard from the H's.

Good night and greetings.

[Polly]

Emiliano

Returning to the H's, it may be good for them to rest for a year and they will resume it with force next year, although almost a whole year has to pass.

Yes you are right.
Unless the camera is moved, we'll be able to keep watching them. There will be signs of them here and there. And more important - nothing will happen to them.

April 9th

It was restless for a long time today. Not right here...somewhat distant but not too far.
09:30 - 10:30 The period is named loosely but coherently. Crows, seagulls... very agitated. I thought: "Ah okay, that's where the H's hang around.". Which of course doesn't have to be.

10:07 A landing noise or at least cracking in the tree.

11:15 A crow is in the tree, actually on the side branch. At first we only see her wing flashing in the corner. Then the crow, sliding down the trunk.
Then I don't know what happened.
Battle crow - crow or a goshawk that scares the crow?

11:51/52 Team H flutters onto the side branch. We see both flying towards the tree one after the other (one behind the other) - side branch I think.
We hear them calling.

[Polly]

15:54 Sneaks through the small entrance...


...straightens a few branches, then up onto the upper branch.


'55 to see the crow exiting the tree via the side branch.

Go ahead...the nest wants to be conquered.

[Polly]

16:50 Slip in, check everything is in order and get out again.




17:11 and back - at least tonally. A crow nags in the tree.

Let us consider that this nest was originally a nest of crows... . Hopefully you won't have any fixed intentions here. The H's haven't given up the precinct entirely.

[Polly]

18:29


18:45

[Polly]

April 10th



Another day of crumb picking..

09:45 A thrush jumps up from the bottom floor again.
She is standing in the nest, looking and hopping as another bird crosses the nest above her. She scolds briefly, stands on. A crow calls and the thrush hastily jumps to the edge of the nest and disappears again below the nest. You can still hear her grumbling for a moment.

[Polly]

Then Team H enters the arena. Well at least one of them for sure and how long (probably H21) it had been sitting there when it was noticed...they are really well camouflaged.

(Marking of stays)


11:54:33 the flapping is clearly visible. Just one jump, one shout...
'55:33 flaps back the jump without calling
'56:25 Now the Goshawk leaves the place, flies low towards the nest tree. Calls.
I don't know if he ended up there.

[Polly]

11:59 A blue tit plucks nest material.


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12:44 - 46 The Jay calls - as a real Jay.
'47 He looks at the nest - from a safe distance.


The jay is flying back into the forest as a large bird casts a gliding shadow over the nest. The shadow is easy to follow until it disappears from view.

[Polly]

12:53 The nearby cackle of an H.

[Emi7]

Hello Polly and family.

Yesterday I didn't hear anything until 9:25.
Today however at 7:03:30 something could be heard.

They are in the territory guarding it from others like them two years ago. Although they could not rest in the first year, they do so now and in return they arrived at the opportune moment in which the area was left free, very possible due to a mishap or abandonment of Luijs since Boka did appear later as you put in the image or video.

The other inhabitants of the area take advantage of the couple's relaxation.

Greetings

[Polly]

15:45 Check check... the crow is back to take stock.

Slip up from the bottom left, rummage through the branches a little, look from the control post... back into the nest and everything is fine and disappear again to the bottom right.








Emiliano

[Polly]

Are serious intentions increasingly driving the crow into the Goshawk's nest?

Actually I don't think so. She comes alone, not with a partner. It is likely that their behavior is based on instincts. The nest was originally built by crows and of course she likes it.

18:12 - 17 She nests, sorts branches and digs the nest bowl twice. She is super vigilant! Again and again she looks around, listens.






I don't know if we're looking at a male or a female here. Amazingly, male crows are larger and stronger than females. It's often the other way around.
But I miss the comparison.
Interesting to see that her eyes appear white when the lid moves.

An interesting development here....

[Polly]

Even today the ants are crawling up and down the trunk in the lower right corner.
Is it okay for the tree to be infested like this?
All I know is that ants in my garden have already destroyed quite a few complete roots.
18:34 Running over the camera - ants too?

[Emi7]

Hi Polly and everyone.

In the whole morning until 11:37 she has only been heard and away at 8:25:24 ,11:30:30

Greetings

[Polly]

Emiliano, thank you.

Yes, my husband has paid attention and I have since a short time.

A bubble day...
Nothing special. Now and then a crow's mouth.

Only the young people, who visited the site again today after a long time, quickened their pulse.

let's run it
It's strangely quiet. Also no strange Goshawk who pass through curiously or look for new/own territories. We would see and hear that - if the H's were still there. They would still defend the territory.

Not even the chiffchaff can be heard.

The most industrious was the wind, which misplaced sticks.


Looks like we're going to have a rotten season.

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Greetings and enjoy the touch of summer!
I read that Spain has reached the first heat wave. We don't even get close to 10°C here. It annoys me a bit.




ps: today the ants are crawling all over the logs.

[Emi7]

Hello Polly and family.

This is the winter goshawk, little or very little. Here, thanks to the camera, we can hear it from time to time.
gjak 12:28:30 , 34 short barely audible.

The heat is already there but it is not widespread. The worrying thing is that it hasn't rained for a long time in areas that need it (Andalusia and the East among others). It rained here not long ago and there are still reserves, although rain without damage is always good.

I seem to hear again the familiar voices we had for so long (12:26).

[Emi7]

April 12th

Good evening Polly and family.

Until 10:07 I have not heard anything, they have not appeared in the area to be heard

( The voices from yesterday were from the same people who were under the nest before but now they were heard as if in passing, surely by some edge or street. )

Greetings.

[Emi7]

April 13th

Hello Polly, Family and everyone.

Today from 5:31 to 10:43 it has been heard on several occasions.

8:48-49 , 9:39 (both?) , 9:58 , 10:03 to 10:07.

The crow briefly appeared in the nest (10:11:55)

11:54 , 56 is in the vicinity

Greetings to all.

[Polly]

Emiliano, thank you very much.

'We' paid attention yesterday too and there were three visits from the crow and a blue tit standing like a hummingbird...hot venturing over the nest.
No, really no convincing sound of our H's.

Today at least H21 was early spring again.
All of H21's calls are defensive. The question is - does the crows bring an alien goshawk or defend against crows?

What I don't believe - the crow has been running in and out of the nest for days - without protest from the H's.

Or...does H21 actually have a second nest that has been discovered and now needs to be defended?
(I rule it out almost entirely.)

[Polly]

Indeed at 11:54 we hear a short 'Gjak' from H21 and H44 responds from a different position.

And the crow is always the same in my opinion.
She has weird white spots. I first suspected a bug in the transmission or in the screenshoter. If it is not - the points are fixed.

The crow briefly appeared in the nest

I still think she won't breed. Of course, they are instinctive in their behavior patterns, but as long as this territory is Goshawk territory, they won't dare. They are play but that's all there is to it.


My videos are purely for documentation. So hard, no frills timestamps.
To listen to the morning 04:44 ( ), which started very early...after all, our couple also has neighbors.