Text  Aivar Leito

Photo  Arne Ader
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Estonian text posted 08.03.2018

Monitoring  crane with GPS with an aerial. Aivar Leito

 

Crane     Sookurg       Grus grus

I am happy to tell you that cranes Ahja 5, Uko and Aivar have set out on the way home from their winter quarters!

 

Text: Urmas Sellis, EOÜ
Images: Triin Leetmaa

Transmission courtesy of  EENet
Translation Liis

The white-tailed eagle camera is installed at a nest in West Estonia. In the same area the web camera was placed in 2009-2013, at the so called Linda and Sulev’s nest. The first of the nests at that time was situated across the bog which is visible behind the tree crowns from the present nest. The first plan to install the camera at the new nest of white-tailed eagle Anna and Uku, popular in 2016, did not succeed since the new nest too had fallen down in winter.

Text  Aivar Leito
Photo Jose A. Román
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Estonian text posted 28.02.2018

Crane „Loode“ (centre) in winter quarters in Spain

 

On February 20th in the morning crane Loode, caught last summer at Sõrve in Saaremaa as a big chick and marked with a transmitter, started his spring migration.

Explanations, photos and video record  Ahto Täpsi
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Estonian text posted 27.02.2018

 

 

Golden eagle     Kaljukotkas or maakotkas       Aquila chrysaetos

 

I went to the observation hut to check on the golden eagle and caught the video about how the eagle landed on the ground.

It took about half an hour for it  to get down from the tree. It observed the area cautiously from the birch as well as the alder. Only when the air seemed to be ”clean” the majestic bird dared to act more bravely...