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Jelly fungi - what is it?

Photos Arne Ader

Translation  Liis

 

Estonian text posted 09.11.2017Kollane kõhrik

Yellow Tremble or Witches’ Butter

 

Yellow tremble, Witches’ butter, Yellow brain fungus     Kollane kõhrik         Tremella mesenterica

 

In the mushroom picking season you just drive quickly past the alder stands at the roads but who strays into one of them in autumn or winter may notice some rather common inhabitants there, the jelly fungi.

Golden eagle and WTE nursed at Estonian University of Life Sciences to be set free

Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMÜ) announces
Translation Liis

Estonian text posted 07.11.2017

According to Madis Leivits, veterinarian and postgraduate student at the EMÜ the golden eagle found in Pärnumaa is the oldest in Estonia. It was ringed in 1992 so today more than 25 years old.

Reader’s video: Cormorants in the Nigula Nature Reserve

Video sent by Villu Karjus
Translation Liis

 

Estonian text posted 02.11.2017

 

The video of the cormorant colony from the Nigula Nature Reserve was recorded by a drone

The video was recorded on five different days in September and October. On some days they were unbelievably many, practically all the branches at the water edge were occupied, and there were as many birds in the water.

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