Text Kristel Vilbaste
Photos Arne Ader
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Spring in snow

As usual I will make a summary of this year’s weather:

The beginning of the year was enchantingly beautiful and rich in snow. Together with friends I made wonderful trips to the Varangu, Tiirike and Kambja springs. And although there was plenty of water this  year the springs had a poor year, in many springs with poor runoff the water went bad. I only managed to visit half of the 365 springs that I had hoped for, but instead I discovered that there are wonderful springs everywhere in Estonia.

Text: Kaido Einama
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Last week art student Pei-Hsin Chen who installed images transmitted from the black stork camera in a public space in London for six months during the previous stork camera transmission period visited Estonia. Pei-Hsin himself explained the project „Real Life / Real Time“ with a need to show a younger generation, or all Londoners under 50 years, an experience of nature, as urbanised people already have very little contact with anything  that goes on in a forest and know little about it.

Video recorded by Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

Red deer      Punahirv       Cervus elaphus

It has just turned dark, the stags only now gather on the feeding ground. Today there is belligerence in the air, all try to assert their importance in one way or another.

Normally the older creatures with solid antler growth do not have particularly much to do with the younger ones – they do what they want and no one protests in general.