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Great tit cameras

Text Bird of the Year Team

Transmission courtesy of EENetTeetormajaTele2 and Elisa

Translation Liis

The nesting proceeds as follows: Nest log 1 – the female incubates 11 eggs in the nest, the hatching of the chicks may be expected in the beginning of this week. Nest log 2 – 9 eggs are being incubated and the chicks will probably hatch at the end of this week. Nest box 3 - the nest with 10 eggs was looted by a wryneck (see video record). It is not certain that the great tits will continue the nesting but the site should in any case not stay empty. We will see.

Wind in their wings for tawny owl chicks

Webcam image captured by Hagnat, LK forum

Translation Liis

A portrait of the smallest chick who was the last to leave the nest log

 

Tawny owl       Kodukakk      Strix aluco

The chicks of tawny owl pair Klaara and Klaus move around near the nest tree. They left the nest log almost at the same time, and as owl camera viewers know from earlier, none of the chicks will return to the nest log.

Earliest nesting great tits have hatched chicks

Photos and text Margus Ots, Great Tit Year coordinator

Translation Liis

Checking the nest boxes on Friday in Vana-Kuuste in Tartu County it turned out that for the great tits that started nesting first, chicks had hatched. About 3 days old chicks were in the nest where the first egg was laid already on April 16. In addition a chick had just hatched in one nest box and in another nest box there were 1 day old chicks.

Äsja koorunud rasvatihane

Just hatched great tit

VIDEO: Wryneck plunders great tit nest

Comments by Margus Ots, Great Tit Year coordinator

Video recorded by Olle Koertwww.tt.ee

Translation  Liis

 

On Tuesday we could observe in the nest box camera (nest box 3) how a wryneck plundered the great tit nest. The video shows the wryneck throwing 10 eggs out of the nest and also part of the nest material

 

Wryneck        Väänkael         Jynx torquilla

 

VIDEO: Buzzard chick hatching

Video recorded by  Urmas Lettwww.eenet.ee

 Translation Liis

 

Buzzard     Hiireviu        Buteo buteo

 

Once more there is a new citizen in the world; the first buzzard-to-be has been hatched. The eggs were laid in the stick nest on April 6, 9 and 12, thus five weeks of incubation. Looking forward we can state that until they fledge there are still 6-7 weeks left.

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