Screencap from webcam  Maggy, LK forum
Estonian text posted 09.05.2019
English translation Liis

Three owl chicks remain in the nest trunk hollow…

Tawny owl        Kodukakk           Strix aluco

That this might happen at some time watchers have already been forewarned about. In the later half of yesterday the fourth owl chick had become quite weak for several reasons.

The three owl chicks were hatched on April 18th, 19th and 20th and they will be three weeks old at the weekend. Klaara also stopped keeping the chicks warm this week but comes to feed them and keeps an eye on the chicks by being near the nest in daytime .

Screencap from webcam  Maggy, LK forum
Estonian text posted 04.05.2019
English translation Liis

Image from this morning of the owl family in the nest trunk

Tawny owl        Kodukakk         Strix aluco

The webcam image shows the difference in size between the three older chicks and the fourth that was hatched two days later than the first three.

Mother Klaara has no longer time to feed the chicks individually and the fight for survival between the owl chicks is on, altough it is not conscious but rather as human thinking sees it.

At the end of May the chicks start leaving the nest trunk

Video recorded by  Bea, LK forum
Screencap from webcam  Rita, LK forum
Estonian text posted 03.04.2019

Yesterday night the female laid the first egg in the nest

Lesser spotted eagle       Väike-konnakotkas        Aquila pomarina

The weather is cold or changeable as in  spring, but the egg wanted to be laid despite that.

In previous years we have been able to watch the nest life of lesser spotted eagles in the webcam beginning from 2008.