Video record Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

Translation Liis

Black stork      Must-toonekurg       Ciconia nigra 

When female Kati returned to the nest after forty minutes after her night-time egg-laying, Karl who had been keeping the eggs warm was already covered by snow.

It seems as if the arrival of spring has stopped.

Screencap from webcam Maggy, LK forum
Translation Liis

The view into the nest trunk in evening.

Tawny owl          Kodukakk              Strix aluco

Screencap from webcam Olga, LK forum
Translation Liis

Black stork   Must-toonekurg        Ciconia nigra 

Southern Estonia lives in a ”lark winter”; in the night a quite considerable snow layer fell.

Video recorded by Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

Translation Liis

Tawny owl      Kodukakk        Strix aluco

Half-day old owl chicks look and sound like this when the female flies out of the nest trunk. They were left on their own for some ten minutes in the early morning with  degrees of frost.

Screencap from webcam Maggy, LK forum

Video Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

Translation Liis

Three owl chicks and one egg