Video recorded by  Aita, LK forum

Image from webcam captured by Lussi, LK forum

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Black stork    

Since Friday night there are only two chicks left in our black stork nest.

We ask parents please not to show the video below to children!

The smallest chick had grown about half less than its siblings – reasons for this may be many (impossible to decide only visually). Plausibly the adults felt that they would not succeed in raising the smallest chick to fledging. The water level in flowing waters is very low due to the drought, thus feeding resources are also clearly reduced. Why see this act as intentionally cruel – the mind of birds differs significantly from that of humans, instincts for preservation of the species and rationality have prevalence.

Photos from  Wikipedia

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Female butterfly

Large white; Cabbage white     Suur-kapsaliblikas        Pieris brassicae

The photos show the differences between the sexes  of the large white. The forewings of the female have two large black dots, the male lacks them.

The undersides of the wings are pale yellow, and the undersides of the forewings of both sexes have two black patches.  The wing span is 5-6 centimetres.

Text Margus Ots, Coordinator of the Year of Great Tits

Video recorded by Olle Koert, www.tt.ee

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Wryneckl / Photo: Uku Paal

Wryneck     Väänkael       Jynx torquilla

Image from webcam by  Shanta, LK forum

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Sadly we did not see how the great tit chicks left their nest on Friday morning since there was an interruption in transmission. From nest trunk 2 the chicks may be expected to leave on Saturday or Sunday.

Leaving the nest often takes place in early morning.

Photo  Arne Ader

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Greater celandine

We find the greater celandine in fresh and a little shadowy habitats, for instance at the base of old city walls, at churchyards, in shore areas or inland where it grows together with our native plants. The greater celandine has been cultivated for thousands of years already in all kinds of herb gardens but its original homeland may be the hills of Persia or western Himalaya.

In summer the plant, of the poppy or Papaveraceae family, may grow up to a metre high, decorated with siliqua-like seed capsules and yellow flowers with four petals. Herbivores avoid the poppy family plants since they excrete toxic alkaloids to fend them off.