Video, image from web camera and text  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
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The deer bulls still visit the feeding ground at the habitual rate from the winter. There is no fresh grass yet and the silage still tastes as good as before, and carrots would be nice even in summer. When the heat wave comes that gets the grass growing even in Saaremaa the visits of the deer at the feeding ground will become rarer by each time.

At the moment the antlers of the stags look very different: some have new small rounded knobs or the beginnings of branching ”woolly” antlers, others even have last year’s crowns, still usable even for contests between rivals and a third group of stags that have recently shed their antlers have neither one or the other.

Estonian Ornithological Society announces
Photo Vello Keppart
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Great egrets at Pedja River

Here is a summary of the final results of the Intercity Birdwatching Contest, with a species list. Please let me know if there are still any mistakes. Many thanks to all who took part!

The Intercity Birdwatching Contest that is arranged every spring by the Estonian Ornithological Society took place last Sunday. In the event 109 bird enthusiasts observed city birds in a total of 25 Estonian cities.

Despite the windy and sometimes also rainy weather this year too a great number of different bird species were noted in the cities. A total of 114 bird species was counted which is only 4 species less than the record number from last year.

Image from mobile  Mikk Sarv
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March 24th in  Tohkri village, Lasva parish in Võru County. The butterfly settled on Kristel Vilbaste’s coffee cup

Orange underwing    Harilik kevadvaksik     Archiearis parthenias

Quite rightly the orange underwings are held to be the earliest heralds of the butterfly period. The orange underwing is active in daytime, and it is one of the most colourful representative of its group.

The flight period of the imagos (adult butterflies) starts in March, lasting until the beginning of May.

Text: Urmas Sellis and Jānis Ķuze

Transmission courtesy of  Tele2 and EENet

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There are two cameras on black stork nests, one in South Estonia and the other in  South Latvia.

We can watch the black stork nest in Karula in Estonia   for the second year.