Lesser Spotted Eagle (Clanga pomarina) nest in Zemgalē, Latvia 2023

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6:57 Andris brings breakfast

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8:04 Anna is looking around

9:34 = Abc ​09:34 thank you Abc!

that was a nice size one

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Rasa yt chat
​15.14 andris with tiny

Mouse was big enough




Ha can take a look on his eggs

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15:15 Andris flies to the right
Anna is still chirping


15:17 she is doing her "I'm now out call" with wing beating- then flies off too


15:24 she is back with a spruce twig

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16:26 preening session


16:27:10


16:28:44

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16:31 preening is over. she covers her eggs

[handbyl]

Nothing of note 16:44-18:10.

18:10 Andris arrives with a dark medium sized rodent. Anna swallows it, chirrups a bit, and then leaves the nest out the back. Andris walks to the eggs and settles in.

18:31 Anna arrives back, carrying a pine sprig in her beak. Andris departs.

Anna is sleepy by ca. 21:00, after brooding and preening a bit since she returned. 22:30 or so, darkness gathers and Anna sleeps with hear head nestled in her back.

Anna awaits:


Andris arrives:


The rodent disappears:

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May 25

Hi everyone

handbyl, thanks

we expect the first chick to hatch about June 6th - June 8th

6:43 breakfast for Anna


9:26 Anna is preening herself , then she is doing eagle yoga

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11:49 another delivery by Andris. A water vole.

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Andris flew away


Anna is looking around

[handbyl]

Event free brooding, after 13:20, with a six minute excursion from nest at 13:51 and a return without any nest decor.

16:09 Andris flies in with what I think was a mole; Anna had her back to the camera but made short work of the meal as she was chirruping again in no time. Andris exited to the branch on the left and thence out the back way.

Anna begins a long preening session standing and obscuring our view of the eggs but giving great coverage of her technique.

16:14 Anna resumes her position on the eggs.

21:45 her head goes over her back, having drowsed quite a bit in the hours before. Darkness fell with her not stirring. Happy days now that Andris is finding food in the afternoon.

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May 26


Hi everyone! handbyl, thanks

Pascale wrote
​8:14 Andris with a

the mouse is a bird




Anna flew away with the prey

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8:15 Andris covers the eggs


8:27 Anna comes home with a spruce twig

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8:28 /8:30 Andris is still too close to the nest . Anna is twittering


10:33 she is looking around


11:06 starts preening herself

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11:31 another preening session


11:09 she takes a part of spruce twig. It must have meaning. Conifers have essential oils and antibiotic effects. she is sitting with the twig in her beak till 11:31


12:55 she is preening herself, covers the eggs and takes again a spruce twig in her beak

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14:28 Anna is calling and beating with her wings. Then she flew to the left. There she is calling
14:31 she came home empty handed




14:45 she is calling with a spruce twig in her beak

[pascale]

May 26


Hi everyone! handbyl, thanks

Pascale wrote
​8:14 Andris with a

the mouse is a bird
Oops

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Pascale


15:11 Anna is calling


Andris brings a huge bird


OMG! Anna is almost not able to lift it. It has paddles. So he has brought a water bird .. a duck

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Andris is amazing

15:13 egg rolling, then he covers it

Video from the delivery

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16:26 Andris is still in the nest.


16:28 he flew away


16:29 Andris is back with a twig