Latvian black storks - 2018

[Michi]

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[Liz01]

May 20

Good Morning Michi and all

Mich thanks once again for you pictures and report

5:29 was a change over. Gaja has arrived home.

5:37 We have still three storklets.

5:53 Kaupo is feeding the storklets

the hole - 5:53

[Liz01]

7:11 Kaupo comes home with a bunch straw
7:12 there is a branch, he seems to bother him
He flew away again

[Liz01]

7:18 Kaupo brings a bunch moss

7:19 Gaja starts feeding

7:22 Kaupo returned with a twig. Both sing.
7:23 he leave the nest again. Gaja settles on eggs and chicks
7:25 Kaupo brings a huge branch
7:26 flew out again

[Liz01]

7:42 They bring still nest material. Kaupo is now with the Storklets.
7:48 Kaupo flew away

I need breakfast and a break... three nest are too much

[Liz01]

8:16 Feeding starts by Kaupo .. I think the crack in the eg is much bigger. The egg is moving
the egg is brocken on the right side. It is no longer oval. The fourth should hatch soon


8:34 A change over. Only one egg is turned


Gaja is feeding the little ones

[Liz01]

8:41 8:42 I'm still tired Two eggs are talking

Feeding video .. at the end we can hear the egg talk

[Liz01]

EDIT: I'm sure now! The egg with the crack, visible 8:18:19 is not the same egg with the hole We will have five storklets. Oh dear!
Michi, I'm not sure, if I should be happy about it.. I hope for the best

9:44:32...

egg with hole and in front- egg with a crack


the egg with a crack

[Liz01]

9:43 Feeding



10:04 Kaupo comes home with moss




10:06 Kaupo starts feeding

[Liz01]

13:34 Feeding .. the fourth is almost out of egg shell

[Liz01]

13:40 it is out of egg shell what a cutie (it starts 13:37)

it is on the left side






now we wait for the fifth

[Liz01]

The fifth storklet is calling in it's eggy

[Liz01]

14:06 Kaupo comes home. Both sing beautifully

[Michi]

Hello together, hello Liz,

so we have a fourth storklet!
Welcome to the world, little one!

13:39 It's just out of its egg shell.




I hope, there is food enough for four and also for five storklets. Until now I don't see a lack of food, until now there is enough. A problem could be first, that the smaller storklets don't reach the food, because the bigger siblings hinder them. And I hope the parents will feed also small fishes and not only the lampreys. For the small chicks they are mostly too big and therefore very difficult to eat.

[Liz01]

Hello Michi

I also think about the many chicks and hope there is enough food

16:07 The fifth is very loud in it's egg. I hope it will hatch today!

[Michi]

Gaja has build a big wall of moss around the storklets.
Maybe it's because of the heat? There are also a lot of bigger insects flying around.

15:56 The view before


15:57 Gaja starts building the wall

[Michi]

The wall is ready

[Michi]

Finally a bit shadow

16:33 Her leg ...

[Michi]

16:43 Feeding. Gaja has regurgitated one bigger piece. It looked like a predigested fish.



The two bigger storklets had captured it. They could bite some pieces off, the biggest storklet got the most.
The third hatched storklet has slept the whole time. But the fourth storklet - behind its two bigger siblings - was also very interested in the food. It hasn't had a chance to get something.

[Michi]

17:25 Again Gajas interesting legs.