At dawn on the 31st of March, Leske laid her first egg of the year in the nest at Vlaha. The egg arrived on Easter Sunday, just a few minutes after midnight, a mere two hours before the clock was set to change from EET to EEST. The timer shows Leske (the female) showing it to Miska (the male) at 00:13. This is the eighth year that we have been monitoring the nest in Magyarfenes via webcam, and we have never had an egg as early as March in this period. The earliest was on April 1st 2018 (then also Easter), the second earliest on April 3rd last year and the latest on April 13th 2022.
Experience in recent years has shown that the first egg hatched 34-36 days after the first. The 34 days will end on 4 May, but it is worth watching the nest on 3 May, as it was only a matter of minutes that the countdown started on the 31st of March instead of the 30th.
As we are used to, new eggs usually arrive every two days, and clutching starts when there are 2-3 eggs in the nest.