Text: Urmas Sellis, Andres Kalamees, EOÜ
Photos: Jaanus Tanilsoo and Hagnat (LK forum)
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Estonian text posted 22.04.2018

The capercaillie camera is installed at a capercaillie lek site in Võrumaa that has been known already for a long time. During monitoring up to five cocks have been counted there. With the aid of the camera we can confirm this or be more exact. The camera however is in one definite place, from where you cannot see far and the direction of the sound cannot be determined from the camera. So the camera does not really replace monitoring but hopefully will complement it

Screencap from webcam UteL, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 22.04.2018

Female Kati left the nest and Karl stayed to keep the eggs warm….

 

Black stork         Must-toonekurg         Ciconia nigra

 

 

Screencap from webcam  UteL, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 20.04.2018

Early morning in the stork nest.

We waited and hoped to see a third egg in the nest in the morning – and so it was.

Female Kati has regularly laid an egg every two days, on April 14, 18 and 20.

Transmission provided by Elisa and EENet
Introduction  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee

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Estonian text posted 18.04.2018

To observe the spring migration of birds we have installed a camera on the Sassi Peninsula – in the same area where we in the autumn could observe the migration of mainly cranes and geese. At the springtime migration particularly many barnacle geese arrive here to the coastal meadows. The first barnacle geese have already been seen on the nearby fields and also flying over the observation point. Here on the coastal meadows they have nothing to do before some green to nibble at has grown. The shore vegetation will only begin to develop when the air temperature permanently holds at least 5 degrees of warmth throughout day and night. The cool spring and cold sea have not let the vegetation on the Sassi meadows sprout