Screencap from webcam IceAge, LK forum
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Bullfinches visited the birdfeeder until the end of the season.

This winter turned out as it did but our feathered friends got different bird foods by  BALSNACK. Arne Ader cared nicely for the birds outside the window of the Loodusemees home office and ends the feeding only when the capricious spring weather is over.

The image from the camera was quite decent, there was no shortage of bird species – we can see that from the LK forum entries: thank you to the devoted watchers in the forum: LINK

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum
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Grey seal        Hallhüljes        Halichoerus grypus

 

As we have already written,  the females feed the pups for about three weeks, then the heat period begins. The large male seals of course fight for the females, driving off their rivals in order to be in the right place at the right time. The really large seal bulls have no bonds to the following generations and they may weigh up to three hundred kilos. The neck folds are sometimes scarred from bloody fights with each other.

Screencap by  Hellem, LK forum
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Seal bull guarding his ”harem”

 

Grey seal     Hallhüljes          Halichoerus grypus   

 

I asked seal researcher Ivar Jüssi who visited the isle on March 1 for observations when the peak of the mating period of the greys might come.

Introduction  Renno Nellis
Transmission courtesy of  TELE2 and  EENet
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The tawny owl was elected by the Estonian Ornithological Society as Bird of the Year in 2009. From that time we have followed the nesting of a tawny owl pair in Lääne County – Klaus and Klaara. We are not convinced however that we still have to do with the same Klaus and Klaara, because by exterior characteristics it is not possible to distinguish between birds from different years. The average lifetime of a tawny owl is 5 years but the oldest tawny owl living in nature reached an age of 18 years.