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Ox-eye daisies

Oxeye daisy      Harilik härjasilm      Leucanthemum vulgare

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The flower of the oxeye daisy resembles that of the corn chamomile, but it is nearly twice as big. The corn chamomile, earlier a common weed in fields, has by now become so rare that even many botanists have never seen it growing.

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We hear the calls of the adult and the chick that had left the nest a little earlier …

So the last young eagle owl left

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The great tit lays one egg each day and starts the incubation after having laid the last egg. Usually there are about ten eggs in a clutch. While the great tit covers the eggs with nest material during the egg-laying period  it does not do so when it leaves the nest during the incubation period.

Text Kalle Eller

Photos Arne Ader
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The beaver has felled trees

A difficult question remains unsolved for our foresters: what to do with the beavers? Is this diligent tree feller and expander of rivers the scourge of forest owners? Or is it a rarity in nature, a vitally important and expensive symbol of our northern forests? In our present Estonian nature evidently both.

Closest to the truth is that we have not learnt to cope with the beavers that have returned to our forests. But we must learn. We must do this, Government officials as well as each of us on our own.