Introduction  Tiit Hunt, rmk.ee
Transmission  provided by Teetormaja and EENet
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Estonian text posted 26.04.2018

Events in the badger camera can be watched once again from here in Saaremaa, from the same place where we finished in mid-November 2016 after the old fat beaver fell asleep snoring on the ground beside the burrow.

Video Ame, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 24.04.2018

 

When female eagle  Suvi rose for a moment from the nest in the morning a little before half past seven the eagle chick had hatched….

 

White-tailed eagle       Merikotkas      Haliaeëtus albicilla   

 

Thirtyseven days of incubation in the cold spring, sometimes even in a snowdrift.

The chick was hatched from the first egg laid on March 18. From the incubation period we can deduce that the egg that was crushed on April 5 was laid on March 21.

Screencap from webcam  IceAge, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 21.04.2018

 

Red deer       Punahirv     Cervus elaphus

 

The shedding of the antlers started in early March.  As we can see young animals still have their antlers, and the old bulls grow new antlers.

Tiit Hunt will surely make a final summary of the season in the near future.

Our thanks to our viewers and the Looduskalender forum members, thanks to whom interesting events were recorded in images as well as words.

Screencap from webcam  Sova, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 23.04.2018

The eagle chick has picked holes in the shell with its egg tooth and squeaks...

 

White-tailed eagle       Merikotkas        Haliaeëtus albicilla

Let us look back in time and make a brief recapitulation of events in female Suvi and male Sulev’s nest up to now.

Video record  Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee
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Estonian text posted 22.04.2018

 

 

Capercaillie       Metsis or  mõtus      Tetrao urogallus

 

 

The sun in southern Estonia rises already at a quarter to six. A couple of hours before sunrise the cocks start to call, but in the trees where they spent the night.

When the hens arrive to the lek area the first cock lands on the ground and soon also the other participants in the lek.