February 2012
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Birder’s diary – summary of January
Via Scoop.it - Wild Estonia Birder: Margus Ots, linnuvaatleja.ee
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Hawk owl
Bird life in January was strongly influenced by the long drawn-out autumn of last year. Via looduskalender.ee
Jää Kesselaiu all
Via Scoop.it - Wild Estonia trip skating on Baltic Sea Via youtube.com
January 2012
6 posts
Estonian Nature Tours: Wildlife Estonia
Via Scoop.it - Wild Estonia ESTONIA - the heart of European Wildlife Via estoniannature.blogspot.com
In pictures: the Soomaa experience |...
Via Scoop.it - Wild Estonia VILJANDI, Estonia — It’s about the time of year to get out of town. In the Baltic states on Fridays the traffic on the roads leaving the capitals are backed up because in the summer, it’s time for nature here, time for the village. Via balticreports.com
Wild Estonia
Via Scoop.it - Wild Estonia Estonia’s bogs, ancient forests and meadows support a diversity and abundance of wildlife long forgotten in most European countries. This richness makes the country a pleasure to explore as a photo… Via neilaldridge.wordpress.com
Winter is knocking on the door | Soomaa -...
Via Scoop.it - Wild Estonia Water level is quite high after warm December, and some forest and meadows are flooded. Now when winter arrives flooded meadows will turn into ice-fields, place to go skating and kick-sledding. Via soomaa.com
Wetland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Via Scoop.it - World Wetlands Wikipedia about wetlands Via en.wikipedia.org
winter wildlife tracking in soomaa national park...
Via Scoop.it - Wild Estonia Soomaa National Park is the Wilderness Capital of Estonia. This vast area of peat-bogs and forests is home for great carnivores, such as lynx, wolf and brown bear. Via tripbod.com
April 2011
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Busy weekend ... →
Top Five Ways to Experience Biodiversity Hotspots
Travel Word’s five favourite ways to experience biodiversity hotspots around the globe:
Scuba Diving the Solomon Islands
Amazon Tree Climbing in Manaus, Brazil
Waterfall Trekking in Luang Namtha, Laos
Canoeing the Fifth Season Floods in Estonia
Hiking Through Primary Rainforests in Sri Lanka
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Today morning (11 of april) has Flood only 22 centimetres less than 2010 (highest flood since 1956)
Follow Fifth Season in real time on Web:
- web camera image is updated at intervals of up to a few minutes in Karuskose http://soomaa.tumblr.com/web-cam
- Riisa Water station gives new data about water lever in every hour http://www.emhi.ee/index.php?ide=15,140
http://www.flickr.com/photos/soomaa/ →
Access from Tori (Riisa) closed
Spring Floods Come to Soomaa →
Story in Visitestonia.com
Eastern Access to Visitor Center closed
Roads from Suure-jaani (Kildu) to Tõramaa are now flooded and there is no access to the Visitor Center of Soomaa National park from eastern direction.
Half meter a Day, no stop...
Already third day water rises in a constant speed, half meter by Riisa water station.At the moment there are no signs why the Fifth Season of 2011 should be less dramatic then 2010, when water rised totally five meters.
See below fresh vides, made by Algis on Easter edge of Soomaa national park where meet two landscapes: Pärnu Lowland and Sakala Uppland. The flood water from Sakala is the reason...
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Water rises about 2 cm per hour...
… which makes half meter for a day. Follow it coming days on webcamera.
More pictures from today on Flickr
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From which direction to enter Soomaa during Flood?...
If the final destination of your visit to Soomaa is National Park Visitor Center, located in Tõramaa, then look the Google Map below:
1. During highest flood the only access is from direction of KÕPU.
2. From direction of Tori one can only reach up to Riisa village.
3. Do not try entering from direction of Suure-Jaani and Vastemõisa.
View Soomaa juurdepääs suurvee ajal - Access to Soomaa...
Find three similarities
March 2011
21 posts
Weather Forecast of local Weather-man Indrek Hein
Indrek Hein is a local farmer who has a hobby to predict weather based on the signs, changes and rythms he sees in nature, as well as on his personal daily records of last 20 years, made on his living place Kuusekäära Farm. Kuusekäära is situated right in the middle of floode area. Indrek is also local nature guide.
AR: Indrek, it is the last day of March, tommorrow is 1 of April, Fools Day,...
White Storks are back in Riisa
Couple of White Storks arrived at Riisa Rantso
How big is the area of Flood in Soomaa?
There is an interesting article describing spring floods in fresh issue of magazine “Eesti Loodus” (Estonian Nature). Author Kaupo Voormansik has also created a map of Soomaa flood of April 2010, based on interpretation of satellite pictures by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Flooded area make up 142 square kilometers, have a look and compare it with Google Map.
Calm winter day
It is and snowy and calm winter day, no visible signs about coming biblical flood…
Fifth Season comes first week of April
Based on the weather forecast of Estonian, Norwegian, Russian and British online weather sites we are hoping for : - Fifth season arrive in first week of April - start canoe trips on flooded area on 9th of April.
Fifth Season normally lasts for two weeks.
What are the Flood camera marks about?
AR: “Algis, tell us please, what are these marks here about?”
AM: “Those lines mark some of the highest water levels here in Karuskose.”
AR: “Ahahh!”
AM: “Blue mark is from 2010, highest water of last 50 years.”
AR: ”It is from one year ago, when we set up a web-cam and everybody could follow the rise and fall of Fifth Season on their screens. Is it the same high as blue line...
Dugout Canoes Ready for Flooding
It is a truly special experience to take a Dugout Canoe Trip when water covers huge areas and the only way to get around is in a boat.
Presidendi haabjaga Soomaal from siim lõvi on Vimeo.
Cranes arrived
Cranes, the symbol birds of Soomaa national park are back, and again one can hear their fantastic sound and see them walking on meadows.
Spring comes very slowly, and cold nights do not let the water level rise more than just couple of centimetres every day, but there is no way back. Keep in touch and enjoy 5th season!
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PAN Parks website about Fifth Season
Soomaa national park belongs to PAN Parks, and our company is certified Local Business Parter in this network commited to protect Europe’s wilderness.
Today PAN Parks website writes about Fifth Season of Soomaa, read here.
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Warmer days make snow wet
Today morning the weather is a little +degrees, snow smelts quickly. Also in web-cam at Karuskose one can see that white river turns to wet and grey.
Still it will take time for flood to arrive, and now it is sure that there will be no canoe trips in forest in March yet. Be prepared for April!
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When has been highest floods in Soomaa?
There is a hydrological station at Halliste river in Riisa village since 1925. Highest flood of last 90 years happened in 1931 when water level reached 5,53 metres above summer minimum level. More than 5 metres was reached in 1951 and 1956. Last year i 2010 the fourth greatest flood of century took place and 4,94 was measured in Riisa.
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Predict the Fifth Season and Win!
Win soomaa.com services up to the value 500 EUR by predicting the peak of the next spring flood in Estonia, the so called Fifth Season. The most accurate prediction will win. The value of the main prize may be claimed for example as a 2 day Soomaa Experience for group of 10 people. Do it here!
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Жители парка Соомаа готовятся к большой воде
Today Soomaa was visited by News of Estonian TV. Both Estonian language and Russian language reporters was there to hear with local how do we prepare for Fifth Season. Here is Russian language news that we copied to Youtube, for official version see http://rus.err.ee/estonia/6733bf10-f359-47c9-b9ab-e7c0a3606ff1
Spring comes
We did a drive around Soomaa in order to check how rivers look and to get better understand about the situation. Snow smelts but the process is still in the very beginning. Welcome to see our photos on Flickr, those are all geotagged so you can learn about Soomaa by looking them.
We also interviewed Indrek Hein at Kuusekäära farm. He is preparing for flood to arrive in couple of weeks, and...
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Fifth season is knocking on the door
It is a time to prepare for the visit to Estonia’ Wilderness Capital - Soomaa National Park in order to experience the Fifth Season.
Fifth Season is called the spring flood, which can raise the water level in ther rivers of Soomaa five metres above the low-water level. Everywhere floods - meadows, fields, forests, roads and even houses. At the maximum flood level the water-covered area can be...
November 2007
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Homme Valgerappa!
Räätsad kaasa ja laugastikku uudistama.