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The next two months will be the months when all Black Srorks will return to North! This picture is from Israel 2008:12:12 16:56:02 - some of them spend the winter there. Just wait.. Today we have got to know that Black Storks have returned to Portugal. Garina do mar from Portugal told the news. That is why I'll put a youtube link here, Portuguese Music, singer Dulce Pontes, Cancao do Mar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSIGWEcR5Dc

Black storkes arrival in Portugal
And one video that was made last year when a young blackstork in her flying trials decided to visit the gyps vulture nest
Their nest was just underneath this one so it is not visible.
http://www.zappiens.pt/video.php?cat=45&id=283

The link is ok. It´s from the portuguese Foundation for Scientific Computing and official broad band provider.

Other videos from gyps vultures are here: http://www.zappiens.pt/lista_videos.php?id=45

Black Storks are now really migrating back to their 'homes'! I found a news from India:

Black Storks from Africa spotted in Dandeli
18 Feb 2009, 2203 hrs IST, TNN


KARWAR: Rare birds from the African continent arrived near Dandeli two days ago, including the Black Stork. These birds settled near a dry lake on the outskirts of Dandeli.

Manjunath Ritti, an ornithologist, spotted around seven Black Storks on a tree on the Dandeli-Ambikanagar Road and photographed the new visitors.

Environmentalist Shashidhar said that these birds, which usually migrate to Kutch near Gujarat from Africa, during the months of November and December every year, settle there for around 15 days before heading home via Sri Lanka. But for the last two years, these birds have been migrating to Dandeli.

Hello Stork Friends,

I have missed you all. I keep telling myself, just another few weeks, just another few weeks and our storks will be back, the cam will be in operation, and we can commence taking pictures!

Thank you all for your encouraging news. They are on there way and I can't wait to see them again!

Hello, Storkaholics!
To let you know - tagged BS Raivo left southern wintering grounds in Tanzania at 15th of February and is on way to north. At Saturday he was in NW Ethiopia.
Other our tagged storks wait for right signal to start...

Urmas

14.08.08
Last moments with Donna from year 2008....Soon we see her again!

And one family picture too:

Thank you Urmas

I found some information Raivo, one of the famous Estonian satellite Black Storks.
http://www.kotkas.ee/ENG/strack_blackstork.html
Black stork Raivo

We caught Raivo from the area of the Paasvere forest district in Lääne-Virumaa on the early morning of 22 July. He was nesting in an artificial nest, i.e. we built one artificial nest near a broken nest in 1991 and only in 2006 it was inhabited by black storks. Watching pictures with our Latvian colleagues, we came to the conclusion that he should be more than ten years old – this is indicated by the greyish head. The eaglets of Raivo were by the time their father got the backpack more or less able to fly; therefore, Raivo started flying towards the south on 28 July. He flew to Belarus where he stayed for some days and the following trip took him across the Dardanelles and Turkey to Israel. The fish ponds in Israel are a good migration stopover for Eastern European black storks. Some of them stay there for the whole winter; the black stork ringed in Estonia has also wintered in Israel during several years.
Raivo's nest:

kotkaklubi wrote:Hello, Storkaholics!
To let you know - tagged BS Raivo left southern wintering grounds in Tanzania at 15th of February and is on way to north. At Saturday he was in NW Ethiopia.
Other our tagged storks wait for right signal to start...

Urmas

thank you Urmas for wonderful news!
not too long to wait anymore!

Great news, Urmas, I waited for them! Thanks!

In the Portuguese SowthWest Coast, in a place called Cabo Sardão, there are a group of storks that come every year and make the nest on the rocks. This couple is one of the first ones (I saw there another one, I'll try to post their pictures tomorrow). The pictures were taken on the 7th February this year

garina do mar wrote:In the Portuguese SowthWest Coast, in a place called Cabo Sardão, there are a group of storks that come every year and make the nest on the rocks. This couple is one of the first ones (I saw there another one, I'll try to post their pictures tomorrow). The pictures were taken on the 7th February this year

thanks garina,
beautiful birds and what a scenery, great cliffs!

kotkaklubi wrote:Hello, Storkaholics!
To let you know - tagged BS Raivo left southern wintering grounds in Tanzania at 15th of February and is on way to north. At Saturday he was in NW Ethiopia.
Other our tagged storks wait for right signal to start...

Urmas

Thanks for telling us!

Great.

Thank you for this wonderful news Urmas. I can't wait to have our storks return.

Mutikluti wrote:14.08.08
Last moments with Donna from year 2008....Soon we see her again!

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And one family picture too:

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Mutiluti, thank you for these wonderful memories with Donna and Padis.

Thank you also Renandeli and Garina... great pictures and so much appreciated.

Black stork in http://static.publico.clix.pt/grifosnaweb/
NOW!

Thank you, Portugal! Thank you, Garina do mar!

renandeli wrote:Thank you, Portugal! Thank you, Garina do mar!

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She is so niiiiiice
Let's hope that they keep this nest this year

garina do mar wrote: She is so niiiiiice
Let's hope that they keep this nest this year

I saw that it built the nest and arranged twigs in good order!