Text and photos  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee

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Estonian text posted 23.08

Now that the summer heat is giving over to more timely early autumn  winds and rain showers it is the best time to go out and pick these berries ripened to blackish-blue in the sun on field and hiking path verges.

The dewberry  (Rubus caesius) looks like a black or dark blue berry similar to a raspberry, with a greyish waxy coat, but it is not really a berry – the fruits of the dewberry, cloudberry as well as raspberry are aggregate drupes where each individual little grain or drupelet contains a small stone similar to that in a cherry or plum.  

Summary, images and video  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee
Transmission courtesy of  Elisa and EENet

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Estonian text published 22.08.2018

During the month we have seen storms, thick mist and mirror-smooth sunny sea at the Havers beach in LääneCounty – and of course migrating waders.

Video recorded by  Aita, LK forum

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Estonian text posted 22.08.2018

Tõnn calls eaglet to evening feeding

Greater spotted eagle   Suur-konnakotkas   Aquila clanga or Clanga clanga

Yesterday the image from the webcam was restored. In the evening we could see the juvenile being fed by the male and also called to the nest – the young bird moves around near the nest. The male visited the nest this morning too but in evening light the image from the camera was clearer.

Screenshot from webcam  Seira, LK Forum

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Estonian text posted 22.08.2018

Male Ivo brings fish to the nest. The “ring-fettered” young osprey gets it to eat

Osprey        Kalakotkas      Pandion haliaetus

 

The young ospreys are already two and a half months old. But we will not look at this but at the plastic ring that has got tangled on the leg of one young osprey.

Rainbow photo without filters sent by   Allar Maaring

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Estonian text posted  20.08.2018

Leisi Rainbow

The changes between sunshine and showers bring many rainbows into the sky.

A rainbow is  an optical phenomenon – refraction, reflection and diffraction of light in water droplets. The eye of a human distinguishes between red, orange, yellow, green, blue, dark blue and violet. Sometimes we  see several rainbows, or secondary  rainbows with reversed colours above the main rainbow.

Rainbows develop only when the sun is not higher on the horizon than 40⁰.