Black Stork Webcam Discussion ~ Tiit & Tiina~ 2012

[Starling]

19.29 Feeding.

[asteria]

Were the feathers for DNA tests taken this year?

[Starling]

Kiss from a sis.

[macko50]

July 18.

7:15 Tommy is practicing.







8:52 Wrong turn

[Starling]

21.41 Just chillin.

[vaino]

1:53, July19, They look like grown storks now and flight training is in full swing - soon the take off!

[Madis]

Hello,
Long time no post, but as its "The season" and i feel (probably am) pretty overwhelmed with work (7d a week).
But coming back to the storklet. It has been now a bit over 2 weeks since receiving the storklet and i'm able to give you some decisions.
First, the cutting fracture has not healed well. I cant point my finger at a exact cause but it seems that the cut has been too deep into the soft tissue around the broken bone (cartilage) so it may has damaged some important vessels and the remained blood-vessels don't provide sufficient perfusion to the injured distal part of the fractured beak and also the beak is soft and bendy (not like an adult beak) the stability has been a issue.
The second thing is that his siblings are getting ready to fly so we have talked about it and we are sure that under these circumstances its not possible to put the storklet back to the nest. So our current plan is to proceed with the treatments of the bird and give some peaceful time to the beak to heal.
The prognosis for release is guarded as even if the beak has healed he needs to learn and go trough some nature survival skill tests, eg. needs to catch live fish from artificial pond (all my patients go through some species specific survival skill testing before releasing them back to wild)
Well... that's the news for now, not the greatest but he feels great and is pretty feisty to handle for treatments.

[macko50]

9:46 Feeding

[macko50]

Dr. Madis thanks for the detailed information about Lanny!

[jannie]

dr madis
Thank you for the information about Lenny, i hope that some day the beak is healed and he can be free in a good health

[Bea]

Dr. Madis

Thank you for telling us news about "our" storklet - we will keep our fingers crossed for its´ healing !

[Lussi05]

17:21 - Tommy and Kelly was walking around, and suddenly Kelly found something eatable. It happened very quick, he ate it so fast, so I didn't see what it was. Maybe a fish that had managed to escape at the last meal??

Tommy wondered what happened..

"Nothing special"


Dr Madis, thank you so much for the information of Lenny:)

[macdoum]

Dr Madis,thank you very much for the detailed update on Lenny. I am well pleased with the treatments he is getting at the clinic.Hopefully,in time the outlook for him will be better.
Also,its great to hear of the rehabilitation available there. i have full confidence in the future plans you have set in place. Lenny should be more grateful for all you are doing.! ..

[Andrea]

Hello everyone! :peek:

Just coming home from work.......and I'm so lucky to see a feeding of only some seconds!



Thanks Dr. Madis for the news. I keep my fingers crossed!

[Bea]

A peaceful rest in late afternoon

[Manu]

Thank you Dr. Madis for your news about Lenny. I keep my fingers crossed...

[macko50]

July 20th

9:11 Feeding

[macko50]

11:29 Feeding

[Lussi05]

17:50 - Tommy is restless..

[Starling]

18.02 Quick look and I thought somebody has left the nest. But there she/he is hiding on the back of the tree.