ESTONIAN BS/LSE NEST 2011

I use WMP and fraps. F9 is for videos (sound included).

As I am usually doing other stuff while having the cam running in the background (which means I listen to the cam rather than actually watch it) I cannot always be ready for taking screenshots or videos...

I often do the same, cam somewhere in the background. Or cams on and me somewhere else
But I come running if I hear something special.

I stopped using Fraps for videos. The fraps recordings takes AGES to load on youtube. Do you have the paid version? I guess that would be better, with the free one you can only recors 30 secs

I have the free version, too. I don´t take many videos anyway... And with screenshots the free version works fine...

Ricky wrote:I have the free version, too. I don´t take many videos anyway... And with screenshots the free version works fine...

The cuckoo is cuckooing , not very close tho.....

I didn´t hear it

NOW I heard it and took a video. It is already loading on youtube - let´s see how long it will last

Ricky wrote:NOW I heard it and took a video. It is already loading on youtube - let´s see how long it will last

Still loading?? 3 + hours

Now it is loaded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TEkRqqc45o

Thank you!

I wonder if our Northern Mockingbird could learn to mimic the cuckoo -- it would be wonderful to hear at night in my own backyard!

This morning, when I checked on the LSE's, I think there was a strange bird in the nest! Tuuli acted very strange, her call is not the normal greeting call and she did not look at the stranger. And when it left - then she went back on the eggs and looked around like making sure this other bird is not around anymore...
I might be totally wrong, but this was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw them. What do you think??

The cam is down
Soon it is time for the eggs to hatch.
Today is 35 days since the first egg was layed. The minimum incubating time is 38 days so at the earliest on Saturday....
I hope the cam problem is not serious

The cam is working again Maybe we are lucky to see an eaglet this weekend??

Both eggs still intact.... tomorrow is day 39.

Today is day 42 of the incubation for the first egg... That is supposed to be the last day.... so it SHOULD hatch today if it is alive......
And I think the same goes for the Latvian LSE too.

Now what do you think will happen regarding the eggs?? Are they going to hatch at all?? It is getting sort of late....

Not yet hatched..but things will turn out all right...; they have no calendar but lots
of time and food is still there!

After 42 days there is not much time.... but I do still hope.

Sometimes, with hen eggs, if the mom is a first timer, she might not spend as much time on theeggs as she should... then the eggs might hatch one day late. The normal time is 20-21 days and a few times we have had 22 days. But anything over that has been rotten egg or non-fertilized egg....

I was thinking....... Do we know for sure that these eagles are 100% LSE's ?? What if they are hybrids?? GSE have a longer incubation time, just a couple of days, but still.....

I know, I am desperately hoping for at least one egg to hatch....

Is there something happening to the egg on the right, the freckled egg?? (Which one was the first egg? I always thought the witer one but I hope I'm wrong...)



Tuuli has been acting odd... Remo brought her a huge mole and she accepted it but did not eat it. As Remo took off she stood around with the mole and then she flew off with the mole still in her mouth. In as hort while she came back and then took off again. Finally she drops the mole somwhere behind the nettle. Is she saving food for the chicks?????

The first egg was laid on 27 th April, 5.48 pm and specked!

OK........ then we might have hope
I saw when she layed it.... but I did not see the second one.... that is why I was not sure.

A headless eagle and.. TWO Speckled Eggs
Which one is the first one??

B was first I think, it has some bigger spots..

ergee wrote:B was first I think, it has some bigger spots..

And that is the one that looks "odd" at one end now.....
Oh, I can't wait

Today i noticed that one of my hens is probably broody. I marked some eggs and gave them to her. In a day or two we will know if she has decided to really start incubating.

21.45
Something is definately happening!!!

The eggs are still the same, I'm beginning to think the eggs are not fertile or then the embryo has died at some stage.................

Remo keeps bringing food I think he has brought 7 or 8 moles in the last two hours, at least, because I have not been here 100%.
All this behavior would be typical if there were chicks.... but.....

Some 15 minutes ago Tuuli stood up and I could see a glimpse of the
eggs..she looked at them and I thought I could hear a very soft
peep peep...but it can be another bird too...however.....?

ergee wrote:Some 15 minutes ago Tuuli stood up and I could see a glimpse of the
eggs..she looked at them and I thought I could hear a very soft
peep peep...but it can be another bird too...however.....?

I have heard "peep peep" too but was scared to even mention it , I am afraid that I imagine things just because I so much want it to happen

It is a hot day again - Tuuli is spreading her wings in a way only birds can - they create a wind tunnel to keep the eggs ventilated.