Video recorded by Liz, LK forum
Translation Liis

Estonian text published 27.07.2017

Black stork       Must-toonekurg          Ciconia nigra

On Thursday (July 27) the first young black stork made its first proper flight out from the nest a few minutes past 1 o’clock.

Final words written by Mutikluti, LK forum member and camera operator

Transmission courtesy of Tele2, Elisa and EENet

Project supported by KIK
Translation Liis

Estonian text published 21.07.2017

For this year we have, with regrets, to say goodbye to the grey heron colony camera. A new generation of herons has been reared, the heron colony residents have scattered. The otherwise transparent cover of the camera is already disturbing the view and needs cleaning.

Linnuvaatleja news, www.linnuvaatleja.ee

In the geat tit webcam nest all 8 nestlings fledged and left the nest on Saturday, July 15th. As first in the morning the oldest, 20 days old, left and as last the smallest nestling, up to 4 days younger than the others.

The departure of the great tit nestlings can be seen in the videos listed below (recorded by Urmas Lett, EENet):

Linnuvaatleja news, www.linnuvaatleja.ee

(Published in Estonian 11.07.2017)

In the great tit webcam nest the nestlings have problems with parasites. You can see that the chicks are constantly shaking themselves and every now and then some parasite (for instance louse flies) crawl across their backs. This is however nothing exceptional – in the nests of hollow nesting birds several different kinds of parasites are found such as fleas, chewing lice, Brachycera flies and mites and ticks.