All tagged adult birds arrived by April 26th to Estonia or to Sweden. Somehow seems that Tõnn wants to start breeding in Sweden, though not easy that would be - there is difficult to find mate of the same species.

The mother of Tõnn, Iti flew for two weeks around in Latvia, Kurzeme region and only in April 23rd found right way to home. Priidu arrived surprisingly late to home Island, Saaremaa and did not flew directly to its nest. Possible, that he went to the previous nests, but these were occupied already and no way to stay there for longer.

The transmitter of Valdur did not send us any information and nobody went to his nests to check the storks there, but the reason of disappearing could be some other...

The wintering of our birds is by now the past. All our tagged birds are on the way to north or arrived to breeding grounds. Not all of them will breed this season (immatures Ahja2 and Luule), but also they left wintering grounds. First reached breeding grounds the Black Storks Raivo and Pirsu. When Raivo flew immediately to the nest, Pirsu was not able for this, because of deep snow in those days in the area. So Pirsu turned back and spent couple of days in surroundings of Soomaa, before final attempt to inhabit old nest. Same time, today in a Black Stork webcam nest in Läänemaa county there is first egg in nest! But Priidu is still crossing Turkey... and we did not get any data from Valdur since stopover in Israel.

Interesting is to follow first time the immature Crane on its first spring migration, Ahja2 migrate from Turkey to southern Ukraine and most probably goes soon to north ahead. The hybrid Spotted Eagle Luule did not fly a lot at the first migration attempt, she arrived close to the narrowest place over Adrian Sea and maybe tries to remember where to cross the sea. Iti appeared like in geographical sack in western Latvia, but hopefully will find the way out.

Same time Tõnn flew over Estonia and last data are from vicinity of St. Petersburg, Russia. That means no breeding in homeland will occur, rather he likes Scandinavian peninsula.

The birds arrived to the breeding sites, those data are not updated on the public map during the breeding season due the security reasons.

Finally the female hybrid Spotted Eagle Luule started to fly. She started spring migration in the morning 5th of April and reached to the northern part of Calabria by evening.

Non of the tagged birds has arrived to the Estonia, yet. But the Black Storks Raivo and Pirsu, who started first from their wintering grounds, they are quite close to breeding area. Probably the further migration was suspended by unsuitable weather, though closeness of homeland may cause extra powered final attempt to arrive. Not all the Baltic is snowy like you may see at webcam nest in western Estonia.

In the same time greater spotted eagles Tõnn and Iti were in Poland and Lesser Spotted Eagle Karin crossed Turkey.

First started black stork Pirsu its spring migration, form Cameroon - seems like he wants to be at nest site before a mate.

Black stork Raivo did not fly to Kenya this year, but he is moving over Jordan Valley, Israel.

Good news, that hybrid spotted eagle Luule is moving around in eastern coast of Sicily. The transmitter produces no GPS data and the power is quite low. We don't know, why, but probably Luule is not moving a lot and the back feathers could cover slightly the solar panel of the tag.