VIDEO: Nightjar pair has been raising their offspring for two weeks
Video recorded by Fleur; LK forum
Estonian text posted 27.06.2019
Video recorded by Fleur; LK forum
Estonian text posted 27.06.2019
Screencap from webcam video recorded by Liz, LK forum
Estonian text posted 20.06.2019 10.25
Goshawk Kanakull Accipiter gentilis
If we have the identification right we have to do with a first year goshawk because we can see lengthwise streaks on the breast plumage of the hawk.
During the attack the goshawk changes tactics because the storklets defend themselves. It was left to push someone over the edge of the nest when flying past which also happens 5 minutes into the video.
The goshawk weighs probably just over a kilo and the storklets are beginning to approach a kilo.
Video recorded by Aita, LK forum
Estonian text posted 14.06.2019
Nightjar Öösorr Caprimulgus europaeus
Towards morning the second egg of the nightjars also hatched. Thus all took place on June 13 and 14.
The eggshells have been removed from the nest and at the end of the video we see the interaction between the newly hatched chick and the female bird.
Screencap from webcam Michi, LK forum
Video recorded by Liz, LK forum
Estonian text posted 11.06.2019
At half past twelve the chick was hatched.
Screencaps from webcam Timea, LK forum
The chick has been hatched and the interfering egg shells have been removed from the nest by female bird Maia
Lesser spotted eagle Väike-konnakotkas Aquila pomarina
Video recorded by Tatjana; LK forum
Estonian text posted 06.06.2019
The egg shells have been placed on the nest verge
Greater spotted eagle Suur-konnakotkas Clanga clanga
In April Tiiu laid two eggs, the first one on April 23 and the next on April 27. The incubation time until the hatching of the first chick on June 2 was forty days and for the second chick, hatched on June 5, one day less. Ornithologists know that greater spotted eagles start incubating as soon as the first egg has been laid,
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