Screenshot from webcam Seira, LK Forum
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 22.08.2018
Male Ivo brings fish to the nest. The “ring-fettered” young osprey gets it to eat
Osprey Kalakotkas Pandion haliaetus
The young ospreys are already two and a half months old. But we will not look at this but at the plastic ring that has got tangled on the leg of one young osprey.
Rainbow photo without filters sent by Allar Maaring
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 20.08.2018
Leisi Rainbow
The changes between sunshine and showers bring many rainbows into the sky.
A rainbow is an optical phenomenon – refraction, reflection and diffraction of light in water droplets. The eye of a human distinguishes between red, orange, yellow, green, blue, dark blue and violet. Sometimes we see several rainbows, or secondary rainbows with reversed colours above the main rainbow.
Rainbows develop only when the sun is not higher on the horizon than 400.
Red-breasted flycatcher male
Photo: Remo Savisaar
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 19.08.2018 by the Animal of the Year Team
I would like to introduce to you a less well known but eye-catching neighbour of the lynx. A bird that I hear or see often when moving along lynx paths: the red-breasted flycatcher. Of our four flycatchers it is the most forest-loving. The fact that I hear and see it does not mean that it occurs everywhere. Old mixed spruce forests are its favourites, and always such where you find dead trees and also windfalls. It shares the preferences with the lynx!
Text Sibelle Lee
Photos Virge Võsujalg
Comments Aivar Leito, “Uncle Crane“
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 17.08.2018
Such a crane chick was brought to us
On July 14th the Imeloomade Selts, a society that helps wild animals in distress, received a call that in the Kaelas village in Pärnu County a lonely crane chick had appeared in the farm yard.
The neighbourhood had been searched but adults to whom to return their offspring was not to be found anywhere.
The wildlife helpers expected a half-metre tall angry fighter such as young cranes may be at this time. The surprise was great when the bird was handed to them across the gate in a small box.
Photos Arne Ader
English translation Liis
Estonian text posted 10.08.2018
Bird cherry berries
Bird cherry Harilik toomingas Padus avium
From the flowers that were pollinated during the flowering time of the bird cherry black and glossy berries have ripened by now.
Bird cherry berries are quite edible: taste sourish, with a high Vitamin C content and quite good for the body. But they are rich in tanning compounds, making the mouth feel ”thick” on eating.
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