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

Lesser Spotted Eagles in Latvia
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I love "this" Andris :loveshower:
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If this "egg nurturing" male gene confers an advantage, who knows. We might be seeing the evolution of equal brooding duties in LSEs :laugh:
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14:17 Anna flew away
14:21 she brings a huge green twig

15:25 Andris brings a mole. Anna flew away with it.
Egg time for Andris :mrgreen:
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a mole .. poor thing
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handbyl :laugh: who knows..
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15:35 Anna is back with a green twig
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Andris is scared :rotf:
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he flew to the right
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15:37 she is still twittering
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21:22 she is preening herself
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then she is listened to the eggs
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21:24 she flies away

she brings a huge poplar twig
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22:26 :sleeping:
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22:56 it's getting dark
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June 4th

Good Morning :hi:

I think we are in PIP watch :D 8-)

4:37 she is still sleeping
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5:06 preening session
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5:16 :sleeping:
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7:00 she stands up, is stretching and digging in the nest bowl
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7:01 she flew away
7:04 she came home with a dry poplar twig. rain is needed!
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she looks fluffed up.. :whistling:
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11:16 Mouse delivery by Andris. Anna put the mouse in her pantry :loveshower:
PIP watch has started
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16:49 Anna went to the mouse, is nibbling and went back into the nest

20:19 I see a hole in the egg :bounce:
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Well, what with all the pip_speak 'n all, Andris came good late this evening, after a lean day at the butchery.

21:14 Andris the egg-lover flies in with a rodent, surprising a slumbering Anna.
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Difficult to see clearly, but a medium sized rodent, here visible beneath Anna's talons.
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Anna is restrained and doesn't swallow it. She chirrups and chirrups as she is wont when Andris is around but Andris, well he WILL look at his eggs.
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And maybe even half pretend to incubate. He rolls the eggs and digs a bit beneath them and then hovers, indecisively: "to brood, or not to brood, that is the question!". With Andris watching on, Anna starts eating one of the prey, tearing it but I am unsure if she ate it all. There is no doubt that we are seeing some unusually protracted on nest interactions between a breeding pair of LSE's. My sense, is that Anna has started coming to terms with Andris' behaviour - she seems a little less intense in her trilling.

Andris flies out at 21:19. But his day is not done.

21:20:
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21:22 Andris departs and Anna returns to her deep slumber at 21:33. Darkness slipped her from our view as we await the 'morrow and an egg with a small hole or two.
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June 5th

Good Morning :hi:

handbyl, thank you for your great report :2thumbsup:

6:24 Hanna is preening herself ..
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6:25 she rolled the egg .. I see a big hole
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6:27 up and preening
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6:28 the hole :headroll:
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6:54 she is preening herself again. Hole is visible
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7:49 Andris brings a prey
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that looks like a "mouse" weasel. I don't know the English name - least weasel? pygmy weasel? they are small
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Hi Liznm :wave: handbyl and everyone

When I saw the title of your YouTube video I thought how could Andris carry a weasel ? (I had to translate it to french before to be sure it was a "belette" :rotf: )

Update : we have a baby 🐥❤️😃 :loveshower:

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Welcome to the world little eaglet :chick: :loveshower: :headroll:

10:22 Anna stands up
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10:23 little eaglet is out of eggshell
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pascale, in German we call it mouse weasel. It's a small rodent :mrgreen:
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she is in her pantry
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I need a break! :bow:
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12:28 little one is sweet sleeping between Anna's legs :innocent:
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Anna is preening the little head from her eaglet
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it looks like she is smiling
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13:09 Little ones the first time alone in the nest :D

Anna flies away and little is lifting the head :thumbs:
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13:13 Anna is back. Little one lifted it's head
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video - Anna flies away & returned after a few minutes
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