Metskitse aasta 2017

The memory card goes into the computer already in the forest. Teacher Janek Joab checks on the spot who have passed the camera this time?
Photo: Tarmo Mikussaar

Posted by the Animal of the Year Team in Estonian 27.10.2017
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Over 10 schools have responded to the appeal from the Animal of the Year Team to school classes to set up trail cameras in the forest. Among them are also schools in the countryside and small towns. Teacher Janek Joab from the Antsla Gymnasium tells us why the children need trail cameras.

The doe and kid became aware of the photographer: danger?
 

Photo: Kalmer Lehepuu

Posted by the Animal of the Year Team

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Estonian text published 08.10.2017

Posted by the Animal of the Year Team 23.08.2017 in Estonian
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On going to check the trail cameras I met a roe deer family on a freshly cleared winter rapeseed field. It seems to be a fawn and its mother who have also passed the trail camera in the forest. The fawn trusts the adult in everything. The young deer-to-be noticed me but only stopped to observe. When decisions have to be made then the mother decides. The doe however did not notice me and so they nibbled peacefully on at the field verge. 

Posted by the Animal of the Year Team 20.08.2018 in Estonian
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The most magnificent buck was brought down in 2016 by Mati Koger – its antlers were rated at 196,58 points. In the photo this pair is the first from left in the fourth row. It is the new roe deer tip trophy in Estonia.
Photo: Tarmo Mikussaar

Four roe deer in camera view. Webcam image captured by Dieter Jakubowski.

Posted by the Animal of the Year Team 22.08.2017
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Posted by the Animal of the Year Team, 03.08.2017 in Estonian

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New camera. In the centre of the image there is a salt lick, which is why the animals visit the place at all. As autumn proceeds we expect ever more deer in camera view since in the later half of autumn the winter flocks start to gather. The site on the border between field and forest verge is a favourite place for roe deer.

The white and brown-dotted fur of the fawns turns out to be a splendid camouflage colouring. Often a fawn lying quietly in the grass remains completely unnoticed by people passing by. When the danger has passed the doe returns quietly and cautiously to the same place again. Already at a couple of months the dot pattern becomes duller and the fawns turn reddish-brown-coloured.
Photo: Tarmo Mikussaar

Posted by the Animal of the Year Team

(In Estonian 10.07.2017)

In case of danger the roe deer doe flees from the approaching threat, trying to entice it away from the fawns, leaving them to lie silently in the grass.
Photo: Tarmo Mikussaar

Posted 09.07.2017 by the Animal of the Year Team in Estonian

 Posted by the  Animal of the Year Team - 21.06.2017

From a sea of flowers the roe deer rose and scampered towards the forest. Alone; in the nearest surroundings there was no fawn on the ground. So the fawns are so small that they will not follow the mother yet. The doe keeps them hidden in a sheltered place and goes there from time to time to suckle them. The time in between she spends on nibbling grass and lying down resting. 

The deer walk their own individual paths now. Most of them have changed the grey winter fur against the reddish summer coat.
Photo: Tarmo Mikussaar

Posted by the Animal of the Year Team 07.06.2017