Black Stork Webcam Discussion 2009

Cameras Watching over Black Storks nest
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WOW the cam is working again!!!! :loveshower: But probably it´s too late in the year now to see a BS...

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Seeing what Urmas just wrote about the whereabouts of "our" storks viewtopic.php?p=47761#p47761 it probably is ... and if there were a stork to see we should probably be worrying about getting him/her an air ticket southwards ... :innocent: Or could they still make it on their own wings?
But the nettle and the grass are growing just fine!
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Yes, thanks to Padis. :)
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Haa, thank you so much Ricky, curiosity is definitely a virtue! :D
our nest looks like a jungle :shock: a very unexpected view :slap:
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Kuremari wrote:Haa, thank you so much Ricky, curiosity is definitely a virtue! :D
our nest looks like a jungle :shock: a very unexpected view :slap:
I would say the nest looks like some corners of our garden.! :whistling:
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It looks rather like my local Osprey nest and I am pretty sure that was occupied for the season.

But much better than the plastic of before, eh?
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:puzzled: was thinking...Urmas, we all know you are an excellent climber,
but sorry, your gardening skills....you can do better! :whistling:
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How do you say "salad bowl" in Estonian? :whistling:
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autumn arriving to Stork forest...some yellow leaves in the nest and nettles are growing just fine :D
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Kuremari wrote:autumn arriving to Stork forest...some yellow leaves in the nest and nettles are growing just fine :D
I am pretty sure that the nettle plant roots will survive the winter, alive (any bets?). So unless Urmas goes on an unweeding (disweeding? weeding?) action, there will be a nest with garden terrace next spring.
(Bociany: salad bowl = salatikauss. But this is salad at pre-bowl stage)

Seems to be at least one more species, low down, under nettle, slightly to the right of middle, longish glossy leaves :mrgreen:
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looks like dandelion leaves to me?! :puzzled:
also very useful and full of vitamins - real salad stuff... :mrgreen:
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Kuremari wrote:looks like dandelion leaves to me?! :puzzled:
also very useful and full of vitamins - real salad stuff... :mrgreen:
a friend of mine who studies wildlife nutrition says that dandelions are Nature's perfect food 8-)
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Last year, a friend of mine was in hospital, having a hip replacement. She persuaded the nurses to go out and pick dandelion leaves for her mealtimes. I think she was interested in the magnesium content, at that time.
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Liis Is that looking like wheat or corn? in the nest.?
Kuremari,Jo Recently revived films about World War 2 shown on T.V. say that a lot of people in Europe survived those years by eating Nettles in salads,soups and even just like that...plucked from the plant and squashed it tastes delicious. (haven't tried yet !!).
Here the older people still go out in early spring and pick the young plants for...salad ! (with croutons a l'ail it's said to be m-m-m yummy.) :nod:
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For a while my parents were picking young dandelion leaves to immerse in white wine -- the wine was supposed to be healthful -- seems like it tasted fine. I think in the Southern US eating dandelions is common. As to nettles they are so uncommon here I would not recognize them -- and on a nature tour I found out I am not very sensitive to them.
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There is no greenery on (in?) any of the other nests, nor has it been in the stork nest earlier years. Were the cameras taken off before there was time for the garden to grow up and be seen? :puzzled:
Kuremari - of course, dandelion. Yellow flowers on nest next year then ...
Macdoum, Alice, Jo, Bociany - at least some years ago dandelion seeds, special salad variety, were sold by French seed co:s. Some grow the leaves in darkness, like chicory (supposed to be less bitter and less fibre-y so).
Nettles are still eaten quite widely as nettle purée soup in Sweden in spring (most keep it to the one meal a year though, " spring is here, fresh nature, wonderful nettle soup!, mm, ehh ... ughhhh"). They had better be squashed if you eat them raw, yes, partly on the principle that the little spines that go into your skin and deliver that blistering fluid get broken off before they come into your mouth. The sting is mostly just irritating, nothing like poison ivy or jellyfish
Macdoum - About the grass: some grain crop, yes, why not. Seems like there is a low-growing kind too.
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Liis wrote:There is no greenery on (in?) any of the other nests, nor has it been in the stork nest earlier years. Were the cameras taken off before there was time for the garden to grow up and be seen? :puzzled:
The stork nest is the only nest that wasn´t used this year, but Padis put more or less fresh building material (with all those seeds) there. And since there were no birds (who would have destroyed the plants) the plants could grow in peace.
I quess that´s the reason.
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I think that nettle and grass grew here from some little stalks Padis brought together with moss, not from the seeds.
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Ricky wrote: The stork nest is the only nest that wasn´t used this year, but Padis put more or less fresh building material (with all those seeds) there. And since there were no birds (who would have destroyed the plants) the plants could grow in peace.
I quess that´s the reason.
Yes, well, kids in the garden, footballs and feet all over the roses ... :mrgreen:
As you say, Padis probably brought much more seeds with the moss than come with bare branches or dead grass. I suspect too that he brought some clumps of grass with soil and roots from the river or fish pond - that nettle is too vigorous for a summer's seedling, with all due respect for weed power (should be out uprooting them really)
In Eagles & Ospreys in Finland Chrissy wrote of ospreys carrying bits of golf course turf to the nest ...

EDIT: Asteria, you beat me to it, quite agree that the nettle isn't from seed in the nest
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So the nest looks like roofs in Norway. :laugh:
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