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Video recorded by  Liz, LK forum
Estonian text posted 09.05.2019
English translation Liis

So the egg came into the nest

Lesser spotted eagle   Väike-konnakotkas     Aquila pomarina    

The female has laid the eggs into the nest at extremely long intervals so it might have been supposed that she would be incubating only one egg.

The first egg was in the nest on May 2nd  and the next one  not until May 7th at about four o’clock in the afternoon. Most usually there are two eggs in a lesser spotted eagle nest. Of the hatched chicks almost without exception only one fledges because the weaker chick perishes before it becomes fully fledged.

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.

Video recorded by  Bea, LK forum
Estonian text posted 02.05.2019
English translation Liis

Female Iiris laying the third egg

Osprey      Kalakotkas         Pandion haliaetus

 

In the Osprey 2 nest the female laid the third egg into the nest. Witnesses to the occasion: a pair of collared doves in a dried tree further away.

The female laid the first egg on April 28th, the second one already  the next day, April 29th, and the third one in the cold morning of May 2nd.

Video recorded by  Tatjana, LK forum
Estonian text posted 27.04.2019

So female Tiiu laid the egg 

Greater spotted eagle      Suur-konnakotkas         Clanga clanga

 

Greater spotted eagles generally lay two eggs, seldom three.

We saw in the video Tiiu laying the first egg on April 23rd. Today on April 27th too the egg was laid in the evening.

Video recorded by  Mutikluti, LK forum
Estonian text posted 24.04.2019
English translation Liis

Grey heron          Hallhaigur       Ardea cinerea

 

A baby boom is starting in the heron colony – just imagine the hatching of the chicks of a some hundred nesting pairs at roughly the same time !

For information – the heron pairs keep together only during one nesting period.