Photos Arne Ader
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 15.09.2018

Hazel nuts

 

 

Common hazel    Harilik sarapuu       Corylus avellana

The bell-shaped and soft husk that encloses hazel nuts is green, velvety and fringed at the edges in summer. There may be up to five one-seeded nuts in a group. By now they are nicely brown. The average diameter of hazelnuts is a couple of centimetres and the weight of a thousand nuts may be estimated at a kilo – or one nut, one gram.

When the kernel or seed (”nut”) cannot be easily loosened from the husk it may almost certainly be predicted that there is no kernel because the nut weevil has laid its eggs in the young seed.

Screenshot from  webcam  Felis silvestris, LK forum
English translation Liis

 

Estonian text posted 12.09.2018

 

Tõnnipoeg

 

Greater spotted eagle    Suur-konnakotkas        Clanga clanga

 

Tõnnipoeg is three and a half months old and rarely visits the nest if at  all. The nest life period has come to an end.

Information and invitation from MAFF

 

Introduction written by Tiit Hunt, rmk.ee
Transmission provided by Teetormaja and EENet
English translation Liis

Estonian text posted 16.09.2018

Last autumn and this spring we could observe the autumn and spring migration of birds on the Sassi peninsula through the web camera. For a change we will follow the migration this season that is still gathering momentum in another location - in the Haeska coastal meadow on the northern shore of Matsalu

Photos Arne Ader
English  translation Liis

Estonian text posted 13.09.2018

Common toad

 

Common toad      Harilik kärnkonn        Bufo bufo

 

On Saturday evening, I had the opportunity to keep company with a toad gentleman at an evening meal that started at half past five and lasted almost an hour and a half.

Why a male? The individual was some eleven centimetres long, smart and dignified. Somehow I did not want to class the creature as a female because old females may be even larger than fifteen centimetres in body length and, as fits dignified ladies, appropriately portly.