Biancone
to err is human
It offended my sense of order to refer to a webcam stream from Latvia under a misleading title ("Brilliant Estonian Webcams") so a new thread seemed appropriate. As mentioned previously the video stream is available HERE. This appears to be a live feed not a standard YouTube video clip, so I hope it doesn't contravene the BF request (in the 'sticky' post heading this section) not to reference YouTube material.
Anyway, as of yesterday (Sunday 15, 2016) there were two chicks being fed, and two remaining eggs. An image from today is included below; it shows the young male attending the nest briefly after he'd been calling the female, presumably with food. I'm not sure if anyone observed that this 2cy male is the actual father but so far, despite his youth, he seems to be doing a good job supplying food and being around when needed. He was often very persistent in sitting the eggs, even with the female keen to replace him, but he is perhaps less inclined to hang around the nest now that two chicks have emerged. This is an urban nest, and there are sometimes sounds of dogs barking, lorries reversing, etc, in the background!
There is lots of archive material HERE, and some excellent recent clips on YouTube (look for clips from fleur3979). The webcam stream carries the logo of LDF (Latvian Fund for Nature).
Brian
Anyway, as of yesterday (Sunday 15, 2016) there were two chicks being fed, and two remaining eggs. An image from today is included below; it shows the young male attending the nest briefly after he'd been calling the female, presumably with food. I'm not sure if anyone observed that this 2cy male is the actual father but so far, despite his youth, he seems to be doing a good job supplying food and being around when needed. He was often very persistent in sitting the eggs, even with the female keen to replace him, but he is perhaps less inclined to hang around the nest now that two chicks have emerged. This is an urban nest, and there are sometimes sounds of dogs barking, lorries reversing, etc, in the background!
There is lots of archive material HERE, and some excellent recent clips on YouTube (look for clips from fleur3979). The webcam stream carries the logo of LDF (Latvian Fund for Nature).
Brian