At the beginning of last week there was still a quite decent winter. The Soosaare sett was covered by a solid carpet of snow and the badgers stayed napping in the burrow. Neither did the raccoons want to go far from the burrow openings in the cold.
Posted by the Animal of the Year team, 20.11.2016
Text Kristel Vilbaste
Photo from Vikipeedia
Translation Liis
The railway station building in Tartu in 2014
When I lived at the Peipsi shore for seven years train travel in Estonia became unfamiliar to me. There were simply no trains to Mustvee. From time to time we collected birch whisks and picked wild strawberries from the old railway embankment.
The only railway trips during that period I made in Europe, mostly from an airport to the city. Once, yes, I travelled a longer distance by train, from Malaga on the Spanish sun coast to Cordoba. Train travel was slower than by air, more troublesome and actually probably more expensive.
Grey seal Hallhüljes Halichoerus grypus
Actually the seals began to gather at the beginning of the thaw, on Thursday. How did the ”greys” know that it would turn into a long-lasting thaw?
Judged by a glance it can be believed that there are well over three hundred there. Where many are together things always happens …
In the Saaremaa badger camera we saw most recently five sturdy animals on November 5, just before the arrival of frost and snow. On November 12 when we finished transmitting for this year from the badger sett and brought the camera to the red deer site the thermometer again went back gently to the plus side and drizzle.
Introduction Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Transmission courtesy of Teetormaja and Eenet
Technical support HATCAM
Translation Liis
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